Higher-spin Chern-Simons theories in odd dimensions
| dc.creator | Engquist, Johan | |
| dc.creator | Hohm, Olaf | |
| dc.date | 2007-05-25 | |
| dc.date | 2007-07-17 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:55:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:55:50Z | |
| dc.description | We construct consistent bosonic higher-spin gauge theories in odd dimensions D>3 based on Chern-Simons forms. The gauge groups are infinite-dimensional higher-spin extensions of the Anti-de Sitter groups SO(D-1,2). We propose an invariant tensor on these algebras, which is required for the definition of the Chern-Simons action. The latter contains the purely gravitational Chern-Simons theories constructed by Chamseddine, and so the entire theory describes a consistent coupling of higher-spin fields to a particular form of Lovelock gravity. It contains topological as well as non-topological phases. Focusing on D=5 we consider as an example for the latter an AdS_4 x S^1 Kaluza-Klein background. By solving the higher-spin torsion constraints in the case of a spin-3 field, we verify explicitly that the equations of motion reduce in the linearization to the compensator form of the Fronsdal equations on AdS_4. | |
| dc.description | 29 pages, youngtab.sty; v2: references added, version to be published in Nuclear Physics B | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3714 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3714 | |
| dc.identifier | Nucl.Phys.B786:1-25,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.06.015 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/186209 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Higher-spin Chern-Simons theories in odd dimensions | |
| dc.type | text |