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Off-shell fields and conserved currents

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Evgeniy Spirin
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M. A. Vasiliev *
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138625delete
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摘要

En 中文
We study interactions of higher-spin massless fields phi. with conserved currents multilinear in the off-shell matter fields phi. Specifically, we focus on the 3d case where a slight modification of the sigma(-)-cohomology technique developed earlier is directly applicable to control nontriviality of the interaction vertices at the convention that the vertices removable by a local field redefinition of a higher-spin field or having schematic form F(phi)G(phi), where F(phi) is a gauge invariant field strength of a free higher-spin field, are called deformationally trivial. It is demonstrated how the sigma(-)-cohomology approach can be applied to the analysis of nonlinear vertices. Generally, deformationally trivial vertices are not sigma(-)-closed while the deformationally non-trivial ones must be in H(sigma(-)). It is shown that, at least in the 3d case, the relevant cohomology group H-1(sigma(-)) = 0 and, hence, no deformationally non-trivial off-shell vertices exist. On the other hand, there exists an infinite class of deformationally trivial vertices, that includes the vertex recently proposed for spin three. Our analysis goes beyond the higher-spin vertices allowing to show that, at least in three dimensions, nonlinear combinations of the off-shell scalar fields and their derivatives cannot obey non-trivial equations.
Keyword:
MASSLESS FIELDS

期刊

Physics Letters B 封面图
Physics Letters B
IF:
4.5
论文数:
3.2W
被引数:
7.3W

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R
russian academy of sciences
学者数:
9.1W
论文数: 6.0W
被引数: 60