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Simple Unfolded Equations for Massive Higher Spins in AdS
Pan Kessel, Joris Raeymaekers
We propose a simple unfolded description of free massive higher spin particles in anti-de-Sitter spacetime. While our unfolded equation of motion has the standard form of a covaria…
Cubic interactions of massless bosonic fields in three dimensions II: Parity-odd and Chern-Simons vertices
Pan Kessel, Karapet Mkrtchyan
This work completes the classification of the cubic vertices for arbitrary spin massless bosons in three dimensions started in a previous companion paper by constructing parity-odd…
The Very Basics of Higher-Spin Theory
Pan Kessel
These notes are based on two lectures given at the Twelfth Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics 2016. The Fronsdal equation and action for both Minkowski and (A)dS backgrou…
Higher Spin Interactions in Four Dimensions: Vasiliev vs. Fronsdal
Nicolas Boulanger, Pan Kessel, E. D. Skvortsov +1
We consider four-dimensional Higher-Spin Theory at the first nontrivial order corresponding to the cubic action. All Higher-Spin interaction vertices are explicitly obtained from V…
Higher Spins and Matter Interacting in Dimension Three
Pan Kessel, Gustavo Lucena Gomez, E. D. Skvortsov +1
The spectrum of Prokushkin--Vasiliev Theory is puzzling in light of the Gaberdiel--Gopakumar conjecture because it generically contains an additional sector besides higher-spin gau…
Metric- and frame-like higher-spin gauge theories in three dimensions
Stefan Fredenhagen, Pan Kessel
We study the relation between the frame-like and metric-like formulation of higher-spin gauge theories in three space-time dimensions. We concentrate on the theory that is describe…