Gauge invariants and Killing tensors in higher-spin gauge theories

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.06.009MaRDI QIDQ876148zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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 tensorsBRSThigher-spins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: In free completely symmetric tensor gauge field theories on Minkowski space-time, all gauge invariant functions and Killing tensor fields are computed, both on-shell and off-shell. These problems are addressed in the metric-like formalisms.

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