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Higher spin algebras as higher symmetries

Abstract

The exhaustive study of the rigid symmetries of arbitrary free field theories is motivated, along several lines, as a preliminary step in the completion of the higher-spin interaction problem in full generality. Some results for the simplest example (a scalar field) are reviewed and commented along these lines.

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Xavier Bekaert. 2007-08-23. Higher spin algebras as higher symmetries. https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0898

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