On conformal higher spins in curved background

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA5C5FzbMATH Open1362.81084arXiv1609.09381OpenAlexW3104910543MaRDI QIDQ2978956FDOQ2978956

Maxim Grigoriev, Arkady A. Tseytlin

Publication date: 2 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the question of how to represent an interacting action for the tower of conformal higher spin fields in a form covariant with respect to a background metric. We use a background metric to define a star product which plays a central role in the definition of the corresponding gauge transformations. By an analogy with the kinetic term in the 4-derivative Weyl gravity action expanded near an on-shell background one expects that the kinetic term in such an action should be gauge-invariant in a Bach-flat metric. We demonstrate this fact to first order in expansion in powers of the curvature of the background metric. This generalizes the result of arXiv:1404.7452 for spin 3 case to all conformal higher spins. We also comment on a possibility of extending this claim to terms quadratic in the curvature and discuss the appearance of background-dependent mixing terms in the quadratic part of the conformal higher spin action.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09381

zbMATH Keywords

conformal theorycurved backgroundhigher spins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

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