A Consistent Interacting Massless Higher Spin Field Theory in DD = (2+1)

Jun, 1988
20 pages
Published in:
  • Class.Quant.Grav. 6 (1989) 443
Report number:
  • IMPERIAL/TP-87-88/30

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Abstract: (IOP)
Using the approach of Fradkin and Vasiliev (1987), an action is constructed in 2+1 spacetime dimensions describing interacting massless fields of all integer and half-integer spins s>or=3/2. The action is associated with an infinite-dimensional superalgebra, denoted shs(1, 2)(+)shs(1,2). Truncation to the spin 3/2-spin 2 sector gives the (1,1) type anti-de Sitter (AdS) supergravity theory corresponding to osp(1,2; R)(+)osp(1,2; R). Various properties of the D=3 higher-spin theory, and its relevance to the higher-spin problem in four dimensions, are discussed.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: THREE-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD THEORY: MASSLESS
  • MASSLESS: FIELD THEORY
  • SPIN: HIGH
  • HIGH: SPIN
  • FIELD THEORY: DE SITTER
  • FIELD THEORY: ACTION
  • SUPERSYMMETRY: ALGEBRA
  • SUPERGRAVITY