Dynamics of higher spin fields and tensorial space

2005/01/31 by I. Bandos, Igor Bandos, X. Bekaert +7 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/031

published as JHEP 0505 (2005) 031 · JHEP3 style, 40 pages; v2 typos corrected, comments and references added; v3 published version

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Abstract

The structure and the dynamics of massless higher spin fields in various dimensions are reviewed with an emphasis on conformally invariant higher spin fields. We show that in D=3,4,6 and 10 dimensional space-time the conformal higher spin fields constitute the quantum spectrum of a twistor-like particle propagating in tensorial spaces of corresponding dimensions. We give a detailed analysis of the field equations of the model and establish their relation with known formulations of free higher spin field theory.

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