Geometry and dynamics of higher-spin frame fields
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DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/101zbMATH Open1246.81173arXiv0708.1391OpenAlexW2110402909MaRDI QIDQ446566FDOQ446566
Authors: Johan Engquist, Olaf Hohm 
Publication date: 8 September 2012
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We give a systematic account of unconstrained free bosonic higher-spin fields on D-dimensional Minkowski and (Anti-)de Sitter spaces in the frame formalism. The generalized spin connections are determined by solving a chain of torsion-like constraints. Via a generalization of the vielbein postulate these allow to determine higher-spin Christoffel symbols, whose relation to the de Wit--Freedman connections is discussed. We prove that the generalized Einstein equations, despite being of higher-derivative order, give rise to the AdS Fronsdal equations in the compensator formulation. To this end we derive Damour-Deser identities for arbitrary spin on AdS. Finally we discuss the possibility of a geometrical and local action principle, which is manifestly invariant under unconstrained higher-spin symmetries.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1391
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