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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

In the context of recently proposed holographic dualities between higher spin theories in AdS3 and 1+1-dimensional CFTs with W-symmetry algebras, we revisit the definition of higher spin black hole thermodynamics and the dictionary between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Geoffrey Compère , Juan I. Jottar , Wei Song

We analyse the conservation laws associated with large gauge transformations of massless fields in Minkowski space. Our aim is to highlight the interplay between boundary conditions and finiteness of the asymptotically conserved charges in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-10 Andrea Campoleoni , Dario Francia , Carlo Heissenberg

In this article, an introduction to the nonlinear equations for completely symmetric bosonic higher spin gauge fields in anti de Sitter space of any dimension is provided. To make the presentation self-contained we explain in detail some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 X. Bekaert , S. Cnockaert , C. Iazeolla , M. A. Vasiliev

In this work we analyze the asymptotic symmetries of the three-dimensional Chern-Simons (CS) gravity theory for a higher spin extension of the so-called Maxwell algebra. We propose a generalized set of asymptotic boundary conditions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-26 Patrick Concha , Javier Matulich , Daniel Pino , Evelyn Rodríguez

We examine zero-form charges in Vasiliev's four-dimensional bosonic higher spin gravities. These are classical observables given by integrals over noncommutative twistor space of adjoint combinations of the zero-form master fields,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Nicolò Colombo , Per Sundell

We provide a holographic bulk realization of Carrollian free-field structures arising in three-dimensional asymptotically flat (higher-spin) gravity. We construct a class of boundary conditions that generalizes the diagonal gauge of Anti-de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Ethan D'Arcy , Arnaud Delfante , Stefan Fredenhagen

We provide a partial characterization of the conformal infinity of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes by deriving constraints that relate the asymptotics of the stress-energy tensor with conformal geometric data. The latter is captured…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 A. Rod Gover , Jarosław Kopiński

Global charges and thermodynamic properties of three-dimensional higher spin black holes that have been recently found in the literature are revisited. Since these solutions possess a relaxed asymptotically AdS behavior, following the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-06 Alfredo Perez , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

The conical defect solutions in higher-spin gauge theories on 2+1 dimensional space-times with AdS-asymptotics are conjectured to correspond to certain primary fields in the dual conformal field theory on the boundary. In this note we prove…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrea Campoleoni , Stefan Fredenhagen

We investigate the asymptotic symmetry algebra of (2+1)-dimensional higher spin, anti-de Sitter gravity. We use the formulation of the theory as a Chern-Simons gauge theory based on the higher spin algebra hs(1,1). Expanding the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Marc Henneaux , Soo-Jong Rey

A consistent set of asymptotic conditions for higher spin gravity in three dimensions is proposed in the case of vanishing cosmological constant. The asymptotic symmetries are found to be spanned by a higher spin extension of the BMS3…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-09 Hernan A. Gonzalez , Javier Matulich , Miguel Pino , Ricardo Troncoso

We investigate the asymptotic structure of the free Rarita-Schwinger theory in four spacetime dimensions at spatial infinity in the Hamiltonian formalism. We impose boundary conditions for the spin-3/2 field that are invariant under an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Oscar Fuentealba , Marc Henneaux , Sucheta Majumdar , Javier Matulich , Turmoli Neogi

It is shown that a symmetric massless bosonic higher-spin field can be described by a traceless tensor field with reduced (transverse) gauge invariance. The Hamiltonian analysis of the transverse gauge invariant higher-spin models is used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. D. Skvortsov , M. A. Vasiliev

We compute the conserved charges associated with the asymptotic symmetries of massless particles by examining their free theory in Minkowski spacetime. We give a procedure to systematically deduce the fall off of the massless fields at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Kevin Nguyen , Peter West

Using unfolded formulation of free equations for massless fields of all spins we obtain explicit form of higher-spin conformal conserved charges bilinear in 4d massless fields of arbitrary spins.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. A. Gelfond , E. D. Skvortsov , M. A. Vasiliev

We construct the Lagrangian description of arbitrary integer higher spin massless fields on the background of the D-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The operator constraints in auxiliary Fock space corresponding to subsidiary conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. L. Buchbinder , A. Pashnev , M. Tsulaia

We study Vasiliev's higher-spin gravity in 3+1d. We formulate the theory in the so-called compensator formalism, where the local isometry group SO(4,1) is reduced to the Lorentz group SO(3,1) by a choice of spacelike direction in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Yasha Neiman

We investigate higher-order asymptotic symmetries for a $p$-form gauge field in $(p + 2)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, where Hodge duality with a scalar holds. Employing symplectic renormalization, we identify $N + 1$ independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Federico Manzoni , Matteo Romoli

We initiate the study of non- and ultra-relativistic higher spin theories. For sake of simplicity we focus on the spin-3 case in three dimensions. We classify all kinematical algebras that can be obtained by all possible In\"on\"u--Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-30 Eric Bergshoeff , Daniel Grumiller , Stefan Prohazka , Jan Rosseel