Higher Spins and Open Strings: Quartic Interactions

Abstract

We analyze quartic gauge-invariant interactions of massless higher spin fields by using vertex operators constructed in our previous works and computing their four-point amplitudes in superstring theory. The kinematic part of the quartic interactions of the higher spins is determined by the matter structure of their vertex operators;the non-locality of the interactions is the consequence of specific ghost structure of these operators. We compute explicitly the four-point amplitude describing the complete gauge-invariant $1-1-3-3$ quartic interaction (two massless spin 3 particles interacting with two photons) and comment on more general $1-1-s-s$ cases, particularly pointing out the structure of $1-1-5-5$ coupling.

26 pages, misprints corrected, discussion added in the concluding section

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