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New Unfolded Higher Spin Systems in $AdS_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-01 v3

Abstract

We investigate the unfolded formulation of bosonic Lorentz tensor fields of arbitrary spin in AdS3AdS_3 containing a parity breaking mass parameter. They include deformations of the linearisations of the Prokushkin--Vasiliev higher spin theory around its critical points. They also provide unfolded formulations of linearized topologically massive higher spin fields including their critical versions. The gauge invariant degrees of freedom are captured by infinite towers of zero forms. We also introduce two inequivalent sets of gauge potentials given by trace constrained Fronsdal fields and trace unconstrained metric-like fields.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8209,
  title  = {New Unfolded Higher Spin Systems in $AdS_3$},
  author = {Nicolas Boulanger and Dmitry Ponomarev and Ergin Sezgin and Per Sundell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8209},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

29 pages, discussion of fractional spins revised, clarifying remarks added and typos corrected in v2. Reference added in v3

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