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arxiv: 1807.01124 · v3 · pith:QEBQUGWPnew · submitted 2018-07-03 · ✦ hep-th

A local action for fermionic unconstrained higher spin gauge fields in (A)dS space

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keywords spindimensionalspacetimeactionfermionicgaugehigherbosonic
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The local free action principle for bosonic unconstrained higher spin gauge fields in $d$-dimensional (A)dS$_d$ spacetime has been already established by Segal. However, later on, Schuster and Toro, in 4-dimensional flat spacetime, extracted such an action from their bosonic continuous spin gauge theory, when the continuous spin parameter vanishes. On the other hand, similar to the Schuster-Toro's action, we found the fermionic continuous spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional flat spacetime. Thus it is noteworthy to take out its fermionic higher spin formulation in a limit, and generalize it to $d$-dimensional (A)dS$_d$ spacetime. Therefore, in this paper, we will present a similar action principle \`a la Segal for fermions in $d$-dimensional (A)dS$_d$ spacetime. Moreover, at the level of equations of motion, we will demonstrate how the Fronsdal and the Fang-Fronsdal equations in $d$-dimensional (A)dS$_d$ spacetime are related, respectively, to the Euler-Lagrange equations of the bosonic and fermionic higher spin actions mentioned above.

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