Covariant action for conformal higher spin gravity

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACEECAarXiv2212.10336OpenAlexW4385693607MaRDI QIDQ6096900FDOQ6096900

Authors: Thomas Basile, Maxim Grigoriev, E. D. Skvortsov 

Publication date: 15 September 2023

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

Abstract: Conformal Higher Spin Gravity is a higher spin extension of Weyl gravity and is a family of local higher spin theories, which was put forward by Segal and Tseytlin. We propose a manifestly covariant and coordinate-independent action for these theories. The result is based on an interplay between higher spin symmetries and deformation quantization: a locally equivalent but manifestly background-independent reformulation, known as the parent system, of the off-shell multiplet of conformal higher spin fields (Fradkin-Tseytlin fields) can be interpreted in terms of Fedosov deformation quantization of the underlying cotangent bundle. This brings into the game the invariant quantum trace, induced by the Feigin-Felder-Shoikhet cocycle of Weyl algebra, which extends Segal's action into a gauge invariant and globally well-defined action functional on the space of configurations of the parent system. The same action can be understood within the worldline approach as a correlation function in the topological quantum mechanics on the circle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10336

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zbMATH Keywords

deformation quantizationHochschild cocycleconformal higher spin gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Stochastic quantization (81S20) Higher spin theories (81T11)

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