A model for massless higher spin field interacting with a geometrical background

DOI10.1142/S0219887815500541zbMATH Open1319.83021arXiv1502.00452MaRDI QIDQ5261028FDOQ5261028

G. Bandelloni

Publication date: 1 July 2015

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a very general four dimensional Field Theory model describing the dynamics of a massless higher spin $N$ symmetric tensor field particle interacting with a geometrical background.This model is invariant under the action of an extended linear diffeomorphism. We investigate the consistency of the equations of motion, and the highest spin degrees of freedom are extracted by means of a set of covariant constraints. Moreover the the highest spin equations of motions (and in general all the highest spin field 1-PI irreducible Green functions) are invariant under a chain of transformations induced by a set of $N-2$ Ward operators, while the auxiliary fields equations of motion spoil this symmetry. The first steps to a quantum extension of the model are discussed on the basis of the Algebraic Field Theory.Technical aspects are reported in Appendices; in particular one of them is devoted to illustrate the spin-$2$ case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00452

zbMATH Keywords

Green functionsquantum field theorysymmetry and conservation lawsmassless higher spin fieldWard operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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