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Maxwell-like Lagrangians for higher spins

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Campoleoni,  Andrea
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society, Golm, DE;

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Campoleoni, A., & Francia, D. (2013). Maxwell-like Lagrangians for higher spins. Journal of high energy physics: JHEP, 2013(03): 168. doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2013)168.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-A87C-E
Abstract
We show how implementing invariance under divergence-free gauge transformations leads to a remarkably simple Lagrangian description of massless bosons of any spin. Our construction covers both flat and (A)dS backgrounds and extends to tensors of arbitrary mixed-symmetry type. Irreducible and traceless fields produce single-particle actions, while whenever trace constraints can be dispensed with the resulting Lagrangians display the same reducible, multi-particle spectra as those emerging from the tensionless limit of free open-string field theory. For all explored options the corresponding kinetic operators take essentially the same form as in the spin-one, Maxwell case.