Symmetries of higher-spin current interactions in four dimensions


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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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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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