A Universal Feature for the Higgs Phenomenon in Anti de Sitter Space

Abstract

In Anti de Sitter space both massive and massless high-spin particles can have consistent local interactions. Both can couple to conserved currents. In this paper we show that when the particles have spin one or greater, there exists a universal feature associated to the particle becoming massive: the currents possess a non-vanishing boundary flux.

To appear in the special issue of Journal of Physics A: "Fields, Gravity, Strings and Beyond: In Memory of Stanley Deser." Two additional references and additional comments and clarifications