Higher Spin Gauge Field Theories. Aspects of dualities and interactions
| dc.creator | Cnockaert, S. | |
| dc.date | 2006-06-14 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:13:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:13:39Z | |
| dc.description | In this thesis, we present two aspects of higher-spin gauge field theories: dualities and interactions. We first consider dualities of the free theories at the level of the action. Then, external "electric" and "magnetic" sources are introduced a la Dirac, which leads to a quantization condition on the product of conserved "electric" and "magnetic" higher-spin charges. In the second part, higher-spin interactions are studied in the field-antifield (or BRST) formalism. Theorems are proved about local interactions of sets of exotic spin-two fields, as well as of sets of symmetric spin-three fields. Some consistent first-order vertices are obtained. The table of contents is as follows. 1.Free higher-spin gauge fields. 2.Spin-s duality. 3.Spin-s electric-magnetic duality. 4.Field-Antifield Formalism. 5.Interactions for exotic spin-2 fields. 6.Interactions for spin-3 fields. | |
| dc.description | PhD thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, May 2006. 190 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0606121 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0606121 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/112552 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Higher Spin Gauge Field Theories. Aspects of dualities and interactions | |
| dc.type | text |