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A Riccati type PDE for light-front higher helicity vertices

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arxiv 1403.7345 v2 pith:VF5SN3LW submitted 2014-03-26 hep-th

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This paper is based on a curious observation about an equation related to the tracelessness constraints of higher spin gauge fields. The equation also occurs in the theory of continuous spin representations of the Poincar\'e group. Expressed in an oscillator basis for the higher spin fields, the equation becomes a non-linear partial differential operator of the Riccati type acting on the vertex functions. The consequences of the equation for the cubic vertex is investigated in the light-front formulation of higher spin theory. The classical vertex is completely fixed but there is room for off-shell quantum corrections.

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