Current Exchanges for Reducible Higher Spin Modes on AdS
A. Fotopoulos, M. Tsulaia
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6 pages, Talk given at the XIXth International Colloquium on Integrable Systems and Quantum Symmetries, Prague, Czech Republic, June 17-19, 2010; typos corrected, a reference added
We show how to decompose a Lagrangian for reducible massless bosonic Higher Spin modes into the ones describing irreducible (Fronsdal) Higher Spin modes on a D dimensional AdS space. Using this decomposition we construct a new Nonabelian cubic interaction vertex for reducible higher spin modes and two scalars on AdS from the already known vertex which involves irreducible (Fronsdal) modes.
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