11 research outputs found
Notes on the ambient approach to boundary values of AdS gauge fields
The ambient space of dimension d+2 allows to formulate both fields on
AdS(d+1) and conformal fields in d dimensions such that the symmetry algebra
o(d,2) is realized linearly. We elaborate an ambient approach to the boundary
analysis of gauge fields on anti de Sitter spacetime. More technically, we use
its parent extension where fields are still defined on AdS or conformal space
through arbitrary intrinsic coordinates while the ambient construction works in
the target space. In this way, a manifestly local and o(d,2)-covariant
formulation of the boundary behaviour of massless symmetric tensor gauge fields
on AdS(d+1) spacetime is obtained. As a byproduct, we identify some useful
ambient formulation for Fronsdal fields, conformal currents and shadow fields
along with a concise generating-function formulation of the Fradkin-Tseytlin
conformal fields somewhat similar to the one obtained by Metsaev. We also show
how this approach extends to more general gauge theories and discuss its
relation to the unfolded derivation of the boundary dynamics recently proposed
by Vasiliev.Comment: Slightly expanded version of the invited contribution to the J.Phys.A
special volume on "Higher Spin Theories and AdS/CFT" edited by Matthias
Gaberdiel and Mikhail Vasiliev; version 2: addition of 2 references, some
comparisons with the standard AdS/CFT framework and comments on the scalar
singleton cas
On gravitational interactions for massive higher spins in
In this paper we investigate gravitational interactions of massive higher
spin fields in three dimensional space with arbitrary value of
cosmological constant including flat Minkowski space. We use frame-like gauge
description for such massive fields adopted to three-dimensional case. At
first, we carefully analyze the procedure of switching on gravitational
interactions in the linear approximation on the example of massive spin-3 field
and then proceed with the generalization to the case of arbitrary integer spin
field. As a result we construct a cubic interaction vertex linear in spin-2
field and quadratic in higher spin field on background. As in the
massless case the vertex does not contain any higher derivative corrections to
the Lagrangian and/or gauge transformations. Thus, even after switching on
gravitational interactions, one can freely consider any massless or partially
massless limits as well as the flat one.Comment: 21 pages. Some clarifications and 1 new reference added. Version to
appear in the J.Phys.A special volume on "Higher Spin Theories and AdS/CFT"
edited by Matthias Gaberdiel and Mikhail Vasilie
Propagating modes of non-Abelian tensor gauge field of second rank
In the recently proposed extension of the YM theory, non-Abelian tensor gauge
field of the second rank is represented by a general tensor whose symmetric
part describes the propagation of charged gauge boson of helicity two and its
antisymmetric part - the helicity zero charged gauge boson. On the
non-interacting level these polarizations are similar to the polarizations of
the graviton and of the Abelian antisymmetric B field, but the interaction of
these gauge bosons carrying non-commutative internal charges cannot be directly
identified with the interaction of gravitons or B field. Our intention here is
to illustrate this result from different perspectives which would include
Bianchi identity for the corresponding field strength tensor and the analysis
of the second-order partial differential equation which describes in this
theory the propagation of non-Abelian tensor gauge field of the second rank.Comment: 22 pages, Latex fil