On conformal higher spin wave operators

Nutma, Teake; Taronna, Massimo

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2014)066

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Add to Basket

Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released

Journal Article

On conformal higher spin wave operators

MPS-Authors

/persons/resource/persons49479

Nutma, Teake
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons73867

Taronna, Massimo
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

External Resource

No external resources are shared

Fulltext (restricted access)

There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.

Fulltext (public)

1404.7452.pdf
(Preprint), 275KB

JHEP2014_066.pdf
(Any fulltext), 537KB

Supplementary Material (public)

There is no public supplementary material available

Citation

Nutma, T., & Taronna, M. (2014). On conformal higher spin wave operators. Journal of high energy physics: JHEP, 2014(06): 066. doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2014)066.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0019-7FDF-1

Abstract

We analyze free conformal higher spin actions and the corresponding wave operators in arbitrary even dimensions and backgrounds. We show that the wave operators do not factorize in general, and identify the Weyl tensor and its derivatives as the obstruction to factorization. We give a manifestly factorized form for them on (A)dS backgrounds for arbitrary spin and on Einstein backgrounds for spin 2. We are also able to fix the conformal wave operator in d=4 for s=3 up to linear order in the Riemann tensor on generic Bach-flat backgrounds.