Gauge invariants and Killing tensors in higher-spin gauge theories

DOI10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.06.009zbMath1128.81327arXivhep-th/0505068MaRDI QIDQ876148

Xavier Bekaert, Nicolas Boulanger

Publication date: 16 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0505068

zbMATH Keywords

Killing tensors; BRST; higher-spins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

81T70: Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods

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