Email this article Symmetries of higher-spin current interactions in four dimensions
- Authors: Gelfond O.A.1,2, Vasiliev M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of System Research of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics
- Issue: Vol 187, No 3 (2016)
- Pages: 797-812
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0040-5779/article/view/170630
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577916060015
- ID: 170630
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Abstract
We show that the current interaction of massless fields in four dimensions breaks the sp(8) symmetry of free massless equations of arbitrary spin down to the conformal symmetry su(2, 2). This breaking agrees with the form of the nonlinear higher-spin field equations.
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O. A. Gelfond
Institute of System Research of Russian Academy of Sciences; Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics
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Email: gel@lpi.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow
M. A. Vasiliev
Institute of System Research of Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: gel@lpi.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
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