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The original cubic interaction terms for higher spin gauge fields in four dimensions and their reformulation using Fock space vertex operators is reviewed. As a new result, the complete list of all cubic vertex functions in D=4 is derived.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-23 Anders K. H. Bengtsson

In the framework of Lorentz covariant on-shell approach, interacting continuous-spin fields and integer-spin fields in flat space are investigated. Continuous-spin fields are considered by using a Lorentz vector superspace formulation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 R. R. Metsaev

Within the light-front approach in flat space, we study the closure of the Poincare algebra at the quartic order, specifically the nonholomorphic constraint involving both MHV and anti-MHV vertices. We first recover some well-established…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Mattia Serrani

This work completes the classification of the cubic vertices for arbitrary spin massless bosons in three dimensions started in a previous companion paper by constructing parity-odd vertices. Similarly to the parity-even case, there is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 Pan Kessel , Karapet Mkrtchyan

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

The dynamical commutators of the light-front Poincar\'e algebra yield first order differential equations in the $p^+$ momenta for the interaction vertex operators. The homogeneous solution to the equation for the quartic vertex is studied.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Anders K. H. Bengtsson

We investigate the cubic interactions of a massless higher-spin fermion with gravity in flat space and present covariant 2-s-s vertices, compatible with the gauge symmetries of the system, preserving parity. This explicit construction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Marc Henneaux , Gustavo Lucena Gomez , Rakibur Rahman

In this paper we provide a complete list of spin-2 cubic interaction vertices with two derivatives. We work in (anti) de Sitter space with dimension d >= 4 and arbitrary value of cosmological constant and use simple metric formalism without…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Yu. M. Zinoviev

Till now most of the results on interaction vertices for massless higher spin fields were obtained in a metric-like formalism using completely symmetric (spin-)tensors. In this, the Lagrangians turn out to be very complicated and the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Yu. M. Zinoviev

In this paper, we investigate gravitational interactions of massive fields with arbitrary integer and half-integer spin, trying to construct a vertex that contains both standard minimal and non-minimal interaction terms necessary to make…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Yu. M. Zinoviev

We study the cubic vertices for Maxwell-like higher-spins in flat and (A)dS background spaces of any dimension. Reducibility of their free spectra implies that a single cubic vertex involving any three fields subsumes a number of couplings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Dario Francia , Gabriele Lo Monaco , Karapet Mkrtchyan

In this paper we investigate the possible supersymmetric extensions for the massive (bi)gravity theories in the lowest non-trivial order. For this purpose we construct the cubic interaction vertices for massive spin-2 and one or two massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-08 Yu. M. Zinoviev

We analyse the constraints imposed by gauge invariance on higher-order interactions between massless bosonic fields in three-dimensional higher-spin gravities. We show that vertices of quartic and higher order that are independent of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Stefan Fredenhagen , Olaf Krüger , Karapet Mkrtchyan

Generating functions encoding cubic interactions of (partially-)massless higher-spin fields are provided within the ambient-space formalism. They satisfy a system of higher-order partial differential equations that can be explicitly solved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Euihun Joung , Luca Lopez , Massimo Taronna

We derive a class of cubic interaction vertices for three higher spin fields, with integer spins $\lambda_1$, $\lambda_2$, $\lambda_3$, by closing commutators of the Poincar\'e algebra in four-dimensional flat spacetime. We find that these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-29 Y. S. Akshay , Sudarshan Ananth

It is shown that the coefficient of the cubic interaction vertex, in higher spin Lagrangians, has a very simple form when written in terms of spinor helicity products. The result for a higher-spin field, of spin $\lambda$, is equal to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Sudarshan Ananth

The necessary and sufficient conditions to construct consistent Lagrangian formulation for irreducible interacting massless higher-spin (HS) fields on $d$-dimensional Minkowski space within approach with incomplete BRST operator and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 A. Reshetnyak

All independent interaction vertices involving massless (Fang--Fronsdal) fermions in three dimensions are classified, completing the classification of interactions of massless fields of any spin. Similarly to the bosonic case, we get no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Stefan Fredenhagen , Filipp Lausch , Karapet Mkrtchyan

In this work we discuss the cubic interactions for massless spin 3/2 gravitino with massive higher spin supermultiplets using three superblocks (2,3/2), (5/2,2) and (3,5/2) as the first non-trivial examples. We use gauge invariant formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-01 YU. M. Zinoviev

The deformations of higher-spin symmetries induced by cubic interactions of symmetric massless bosonic fields are analyzed within the metric-like formalism. Our analysis amends the existing classification according to gauge-algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Euihun Joung , Massimo Taronna