Friday, November 30, 2012

1211.6979 (Nicolas Boulanger et al.)

Non-abelian cubic vertices for higher-spin fields in anti-de Sitter
space
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Nicolas Boulanger, Dmitry Ponomarev, E. D. Skvortsov
We use the Fradkin-Vasiliev procedure to construct the full set of non-abelian cubic vertices for totally symmetric higher spin gauge fields in anti-de Sitter space. The number of such vertices is given by a certain tensor-product multiplicity. We discuss the one-to-one relation between our result and the list of non-abelian gauge deformations in flat space obtained elsewhere via the cohomological approach. We comment about the uniqueness of Vasiliev's simplest higher-spin algebra in relation with the (non)associativity properties of the gauge algebras that we classified. The gravitational interactions for (partially)-massless (mixed)-symmetry fields are also discussed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6979

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