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Cubic vertices for symmetric higher-spin gauge fields of integer spins in $(A)dS_d$ are analyzed. $(A)dS_d$ generalization of the previously known action in $AdS_4$, that describes cubic interactions of symmetric massless fields of all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Mikhail A. Vasiliev

We obtain a non-relativistic chiral massive higher-spin gravity in a deformed $AdS_3$ spacetime by applying a Lifshitz deformation and subsequent null reduction to chiral massless higher-spin gravity in $AdS_4$. Intriguingly, the vertices…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Arpita Mitra , Debangshu Mukherjee , Tung Tran

This thesis presents the general structure of non-conformal higher-spin supercurrent multiplets in three and four spacetime dimensions. Such supercurrents are in one-to-one correspondence with off-shell massless higher-spin gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-03 Jessica Hutomo

We consider theories of three dimensional quantum gravity in Anti-de Sitter space which possess massless higher-spin gauge symmetry. The perturbative spectrum of the theory includes higher spin excitations which can be organized into vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 Alejandra Castro , Arnaud Lepage-Jutier , Alexander Maloney

We propose a BRST extension of the higher-spin gauge theory in $AdS_4$ with the BRST operator associated with the local Lorentz symmetry. Our construction supports manifest local Lorentz covariance and is applicable both to any homotopy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 O. A. Gelfond , M. A. Vasiliev

We consider the Sp(2n) invariant formulation of higher spin fields on flat and curved backgrounds of constant curvature.In this formulation an infinite number of higher spin fields are packed into single scalar and spinor master fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-10 Ioannis Florakis , Dmitri Sorokin , Mirian Tsulaia

The CP^N Kazama-Suzuki models with the non-linear chiral algebra SW_infinity[lambda] have been conjectured to be dual to the fully supersymmetric Prokushkin-Vasiliev theory of higher-spin gauge fields coupled to two massive N=2 multiplets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-19 Heidar Moradi , Konstantinos Zoubos

I review recent work on the holographic relation between higher-spin theories in Anti-de Sitter spaces and conformal field theories. I present the main results of studies concerning the higher-spin holographic dual of the three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Petkou

In this paper, we fill some gap in the existing literature on higher spins by presenting an explicit solution to the on-shell constraints for a frame-like, gauge invariant description of massive, higher spin fields in d=4. We begin with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Yu. M. Zinoviev

We show that there exist conformally invariant theories for all spins in d=4 de Sitter space, namely the partially massless models with higher derivative gauge invariance under a scalar gauge parameter. This extends the catalog from the two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , A. Waldron

We construct consistent bosonic higher-spin gauge theories in odd dimensions D>3 based on Chern-Simons forms. The gauge groups are infinite-dimensional higher-spin extensions of the Anti-de Sitter groups SO(D-1,2). We propose an invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Johan Engquist , Olaf Hohm

Realization of the conformal higher spin symmetry on the 4d massless field supermultiplets is given. The self-conjugated supermultiplets, including the linearized ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory, are considered in some detail. Duality between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-18 M. A. Vasiliev

We explore the conjectured duality between the critical O(N) vector model and minimal bosonic massless higher spin (HS) theory in AdS. In the boundary free theory, the conformal partial wave expansion (CPWE) of the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Danilo E. Diaz , Harald Dorn

We study the chiral higher-spin symmetry algebras $\mathfrak{ca}$ of various twistorial higher-spin theories. These symmetries play the roles of asymptotic symmetries on the celestial twistor sphere, which constrain the observables of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Tung Tran

The strong form of the AdS/CFT correspondence implies that the leading $N$ expressions for the connected correlation functions of the gauge invariant operators in the free ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with the gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Mikhailov

We aim at formulating a higher-spin gravity theory around AdS$_2$ relevant for holography. As a first step, we investigate its kinematics by identifying the low-dimensional cousins of the standard higher-dimensional structures in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-08 Konstantin Alkalaev , Xavier Bekaert

A new class of higher-spin gauge theories associated with various Coxeter groups is proposed. The emphasize is on the $B_p$--models. The cases of $B_1$ and its infinite graded-symmetric product $sym\,(\times B_1)^\infty$ correspond to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 M. A. Vasiliev

In this paper, a gauge invariant description of massive higher spin bosonic and fermionic particles in frame-like Lagrangian and unfolded formalism in (A)dS${}_4$ is built. A complete set of gauge invariant object is also constructed and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 M. V. Khabarov , Yu. M Zinoviev

Making use of the known off-shell formulations for massless higher-spin ${\cal N}=1$ supermultiplets in four dimensions, gauge-invariant off-shell actions for massive higher-spin ${\cal N}=2$ supermultiplets in three dimensions (3D) are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Arcadia J. Fegebank , Sergei M. Kuzenko

The algebra of differential geometry operations on symmetric tensors over constant curvature manifolds forms a novel deformation of the sl(2,R) [semidirect product] R^2 Lie algebra. We present a simple calculus for calculations in its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Karl Hallowell , Andrew Waldron