An action for matter coupled higher spin gravity in three dimensions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2016, The Author(s). Abstract: We propose a covariant Hamiltonian action for the Prokushkin and Vasilievs matter coupled higher spin gravity in three dimensions. The action is formulated on X4 Z2 where X4 is an open manifold whose boundary contains spacetime and Z2 is a noncommutative twistor space. We examine various consistent truncations to models of BF type in X4 and Z2 with B2 terms and central elements. They are obtained by integrating out the matter fields in the presence of a vacuum expectation value for the zero-form master field. For = 0, we obtain a model on X4 containing Blencowes action and a model on Z2 containing the Prokushkin-Segal-Vasiliev action. For generic (including = 0), we propose an alternative model on X4 with gauge fields in the Weyl algebra of Wigners deformed oscillator algebra and Lagrange multipliers in the algebra of operators acting in the Fock representation space of the deformed oscillators.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Bonezzi, R., Boulanger, N., Sezgin, E., & Sundell, P.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Bonezzi, Roberto||Boulanger, Nicolas||Sezgin, Ergin||Sundell, Per

publication date

  • May 2016