Master higher-spin particle

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/17/006zbMATH Open1100.83011arXivhep-th/0604111OpenAlexW2073455824MaRDI QIDQ5489742FDOQ5489742

Authors: Sergey Fedoruk, Evgeny Ivanov 

Publication date: 28 September 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a "master" higher-spin (HS) particle system. The particle model relevant to the unfolded formulation of HS theory, as well as the HS particle model with a bosonic counterpart of supersymmetry, follow from the master model as its two different gauges. Quantization of the master system gives rise to a new form of the massless HS equations in an extended space involving, besides extra spinorial coordinates, also a complex scalar one. As solutions to these equations we recover the massless HS multiplet with fields of all integer and half-integer helicities, and obtain new multiplets with a non-zero minimal helicity. The HS multiplets are described by complex wave functions which are holomorphic in the scalar coordinate and carry an extra U(1) charge q. The latter fully characterizes the given multiplet by fixing the minimal helicity as q/2. We construct a twistorial formulation of the master system and present the general solution of the associate HS equations through an unconstrained twistor "prepotential".

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0604111

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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