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We derive cubic interaction vertices for a class of higher-derivative theories involving three arbitrary integer spin fields. This derivation uses the requirement of closure of the Poincar\`e algebra in four-dimensional flat spacetime. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Sudarshan Ananth , Nipun Bhave , Chetan Pandey , Saurabh Pant

We show that the recently proposed equations for holomorphic sector of higher-spin theory in $d=4$, also known as chiral, can be naturally extended to describe interacting symmetric higher-spin gauge fields in any dimension. This is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 V. E. Didenko , A. V. Korybut

The pure spinor formulation of the ten-dimensional superstring leads to manifestly supersymmetric loop amplitudes, expressed as integrals in pure spinor superspace. This paper explores different methods to evaluate these integrals and then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian Stahn

We develop a spinor helicity formalism for five-dimensional scattering amplitudes of any mass and spin configuration. While five-dimensional spinor helicity variables have been previously studied in the context of N=2,4 supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Andrzej Pokraka , Smita Rajan , Lecheng Ren , Anastasia Volovich , W. Wayne Zhao

We examine recent advancements of the spinor helicity formalism of massive particles. Technical aspects about the formulation of massive helicity spinors are presented in detail to analyze the projective-geometry kinematics of helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Camille Gomez-Laberge

A remarkable connection between perturbative scattering amplitudes of four-dimensional planar SYM, and the stratification of the positive grassmannian, was revealed in the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed et. al. Similar extension for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Yu-tin Huang , CongKao Wen

We study $3d$ SCFTs in the superspace formalism and discuss superfields and on-shell higher spin current multiplets in free $3d$ SCFTs with $\mathcal{N}= 1,2,3,4$ and $6$ superconformal symmetry. For $\mathcal{N}=1$ 3d SCFTs we determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Amin A. Nizami , Tarun Sharma , V. Umesh

We construct the on-shell amplitude basis and the corresponding effective operators for generic modified gravity theory, such as pure gravity with higher derivatives, scalar-tensor gravity, Einstein-Yang-Mills, etc. Taking the Weyl tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Hao-Lin Li , Zhe Ren , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu , Yu-Hui Zheng

A system of fermions with short-range interactions at finite density is studied using the framework of effective field theory. The effective action formalism for fermions with auxiliary fields leads to a loop expansion in which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Furnstahl , H. -W. Hammer

We study the interaction of massive spin-3/2 field with electromagnetic and gravitational fields in the four dimensional AdS space and construct the corresponding cubic vertices. Construction is based on generalization of Fradkin-Vasiliev…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 I. L. Buchbinder , T. V. Snegirev , Yu. M. Zinoviev

We define a Mellin amplitude for CFT$_1$ four-point functions. Its analytical properties are inferred from physical requirements on the correlator. We discuss the analytic continuation that is necessary for a fully nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Lorenzo Bianchi , Gabriel Bliard , Valentina Forini , Giulia Peveri

In this letter we suggest a natural spinor-helicity formalism for massless fields in AdS${}_4$. It is based on the standard realization of the AdS${}_4$ isometry algebra $so(3,2)$ in terms of differential operators acting on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Balakrishnan Nagaraj , Dmitry Ponomarev

Massless chiral fields of arbitrary spin in six spacetime dimensions, also known as higher spin singletons, admit a simple formulation in terms of $SU^*(4) \cong SL(2,\mathbb{H})$ tensors. We show that, paralleling the four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Thomas Basile

We develop the contact singularity theory for singularly-perturbed (or `slow-fast') vector fields of the general form $z' = H(z,\varepsilon)$, $z\in\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\varepsilon\ll 1$. Our main result is the derivation of computable,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Ian Lizarraga , Robert Marangell , Martin Wechselberger

Chiral antisymmetric tensor fields can have chiral couplings to quarks and leptons. Their kinetic terms do not mix different representations of the Lorentz symmetry and a local mass term is forbidden by symmetry. The chiral couplings to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Wetterich

We construct the higher-spin massive fermionic fields in 2+1 dimensions. Their field equations and propagators are derived from first principle. For fields with j>1/2, complications arise from the non-linear behaviour of the boost…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-27 Cheng-Yang Lee

We develop calculational tools to determine higher loop superstring correlators involving massless fermionic and spin fields in four space time dimensions. These correlation functions are basic ingredients for the calculation of loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-05 Oliver Schlotterer

We initiate an exploration of on-shell functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM beyond the planar limit by providing compact, combinatorial expressions for all leading singularities of MHV amplitudes and showing that they can always be expressed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Alexander Postnikov , Jaroslav Trnka

We propose a definition of Mellin amplitudes for conformal correlators involving arbitrary spinning operators in tensor representations of the Lorentz group. These representations cover all bosonic local operators. Our strategy is to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Zhongjie Huang , Yichao Tang

We construct vertex operators for massless higher spin fields in RNS superstring theory and compute some of their three-point correlators, describing gauge-invariant cubic interactions of the massless higher spins. The Fierz-Pauli on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Dimitri Polyakov