Minimal Local Lagrangians for Higher-Spin Geometry

Details Minimal Local Lagrangians for Higher-Spin Geometry Minimal Local Lagrangians for Higher-Spin Geometry

2005-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507144v2

Phys.Lett. B624 (2005) 93-104

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

14 pages, Latex. Notation clarified

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.002

The Fronsdal Lagrangians for free totally symmetric rank-s tensors rest on suitable trace constraints for their gauge parameters and gauge fields. Only when these constraints are removed, however, the resulting equations reflect the expected free higher-spin geometry. We show that geometric equations, in both their local and non-local forms, can be simply recovered from local Lagrangians with only two additional fields, a rank-(s-3) compensator and a rank-(s-4) Lagrange multiplier. In a similar fashion, we show that geometric equations for unconstrained rank-n totally symmetric spinor-tensors can be simply recovered from local Lagrangians with only two additional spinor-tensors, a rank-(n-2) compensator and a rank-(n-3) Lagrange multiplier.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Minimal Local Lagrangians for Higher-Spin Geometry does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Minimal Local Lagrangians for Higher-Spin Geometry, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Minimal Local Lagrangians for Higher-Spin Geometry will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-575426