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Higher spin Lagrangians from higher derivative diffeomorphisms
Will Barker, Dario Francia, Carlo Marzo +1
The covariant description of massless particles of arbitrary spin typically employs symmetric tensors of rank and rests on a local symmetry carried by symmetric tensor paramete…
Asymptotic charges of forms and their dualities in any
Dario Francia, Federico Manzoni
We compute the surface charges associated to form gauge fields in arbitrary spacetime dimension for large values of the radial coordinate. In the critical dimension where radia…
Geometric massive higher spins and current exchanges
Dario Francia
Generalised Fierz-Pauli mass terms allow to describe massive higher-spin fields on flat background by means of simple quadratic deformations of the corresponding geometric, massles…
Geometric Lagrangians for massive higher-spin fields
D. Francia
Lagrangians for massive, unconstrained, higher-spin bosons and fermions are proposed. The idea is to modify the geometric, gauge invariant Lagrangians describing the corresponding…
Current Exchanges and Unconstrained Higher Spins
D. Francia, J. Mourad, A. Sagnotti
The (Fang-)Fronsdal formulation for free fully symmetric (spinor-) tensors rests on (gamma-)trace constraints on gauge fields and parameters. When these are relaxed, glimpses of th…