A Consistent Interacting Massless Higher Spin Field Theory in = (2+1)
Jun, 198820 pages
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- Class.Quant.Grav. 6 (1989) 443
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- IMPERIAL/TP-87-88/30
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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
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