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Massless chiral fields in six dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-01 v2

Abstract

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)SL(2,H)SU^*(4) \cong SL(2,\mathbb{H}) tensors. We show that, paralleling the four-dimensional case, these fields can be described using a 00-form and a gauge 22-form, taking values in totally symmetric tensors of SU(4)SU^*(4). We then exhibit an example of interacting theory that couples a tower of singletons of all integer spin to a background of g\mathfrak{g}-valued higher spin fields, for g\mathfrak{g} an arbitrary Lie algebra equipped with an invariant symmetric bilinear form. Finally, we discuss the formulation of these models in arbitrary even dimensions, as well as their partially-massless counterpart.

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@article{arxiv.2409.12800,
  title  = {Massless chiral fields in six dimensions},
  author = {Thomas Basile},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12800},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: A few typos corrected, clarification of the reducibility of gauge symmetries and additional comments on current interactions

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:50:20.084Z