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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Physics A General Physics (1968-1972) Année : 2010

Strong obstruction of the Berends-Burgers-van Dam spin-3 vertex

Nicolas Boulanger
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Serge Leclercq
  • Fonction : Auteur

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In the eighties, Berends, Burgers and van Dam (BBvD) found a nonabelian cubic vertex for self-interacting massless fields of spin three in flat spacetime. However, they also found that this deformation is inconsistent at higher order for any multiplet of spin-three fields. For arbitrary symmetric gauge fields, we severely constrain the possible nonabelian deformations of the gauge algebra and, using these results, prove that the BBvD obstruction cannot be cured by any means, even by introducing fields of spin higher (or lower) than three.

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hal-00492751 , version 1 (16-06-2010)

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Xavier Bekaert, Nicolas Boulanger, Serge Leclercq. Strong obstruction of the Berends-Burgers-van Dam spin-3 vertex. Journal of Physics A General Physics (1968-1972), 2010, 43 (18), pp.185401. ⟨hal-00492751⟩
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