Linear connections with propagating spin-3 field in gravity

dc.creatorBaekler, Peter
dc.creatorBoulanger, Nicolas
dc.creatorHehl, Friedrich W.
dc.date2006-08-17
dc.date2006-10-18
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dc.descriptionWe show that Fronsdal's Lagrangian for a free massless spin-3 gauge field in Minkowski spacetime is contained in a general Yang--Mills-like Lagrangian of metric-affine gravity (MAG), the gauge theory of the general affine group in the presence of a metric. Due to the geometric character of MAG, this can best be seen by using Vasiliev's frame formalism for higher-spin gauge fields in which the spin-3 frame is identified with the tracefree nonmetricity one-form associated with the shear generators of GL(n,R). Furthermore, for specific gravitational gauge models in the framework of full nonlinear MAG, exact solutions are constructed, featuring propagating massless and massive spin-3 fields.
dc.descriptionReferences added. Minor corrections and clarifications. To be published in Phys. Rev. D
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0608122
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0608122
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D74:125009,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.125009
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189728
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleLinear connections with propagating spin-3 field in gravity
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