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Higher-spin charges in Hamiltonian form. I. Bose fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study asymptotic charges for symmetric massless higher-spin fields on Anti de Sitter backgrounds of arbitrary dimension within the canonical formalism. We first analyse in detail the spin-3 example: we cast Fronsdal's action in Hamiltonian form, we derive the charges and we propose boundary conditions on the canonical variables that secure their finiteness. We then extend the computation of charges and the characterisation of boundary conditions to arbitrary spin.

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@article{arxiv.1608.04663,
  title  = {Higher-spin charges in Hamiltonian form. I. Bose fields},
  author = {Andrea Campoleoni and Marc Henneaux and Sergio Hörtner and Amaury Leonard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04663},
  year   = {2016}
}

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44 pages. References and comments added; version to appear in JHEP

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