Snowmass white paper: higher spin gravity and higher spin symmetry

X Bekaert, N Boulanger, A Campoleoni… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Higher Spin Gravity refers to extensions of gravity including at least one field of spin greater
than two. These extensions are expected to provide manageable models of quantum gravity …

From higher-spin gauge interactions to Compton amplitudes for root-Kerr

L Cangemi, M Chiodaroli, H Johansson… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We develop massive higher-spin theory as a framework for describing dynamics of
rotating compact objects, such as Kerr black holes. In this paper, we explore gauge …

Elements of Vasiliev theory

VE Didenko, ED Skvortsov - Introductory Lectures on Higher-Spin …, 2024 - Springer
We propose a self-contained description of Vasiliev higher-spin theories with the emphasis
on nonlinear equations. The main sections are supplemented with some additional material …

Cubic action for spinning black holes from massive higher-spin gauge symmetry

E Skvortsov, M Tsulaia - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Scattering of two Kerr Black Holes emitting gravitational waves can be captured by
an effective theory of a massive higher-spin field interacting with the gravitational field. While …

Spinor-helicity three-point amplitudes from local cubic interactions

E Conde, E Joung, K Mkrtchyan - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We make an explicit link between the cubic interactions of off-shell fields and the
on-shell three-point amplitudes in four dimensions. Both the cubic interactions and the on …

Matter-free higher spin gravities in 3D: Partially-massless fields and general structure

M Grigoriev, K Mkrtchyan, E Skvortsov - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We study the problem of interacting theories with partially-massless and conformal higher
spin fields without matter in three dimensions. A new class of theories that have partially …

[HTML][HTML] General cubic interacting vertex for massless integer higher spin fields

IL Buchbinder, AA Reshetnyak - Physics Letters B, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider a massless higher spin field theory within the BRST approach and construct a
general off-shell cubic vertex corresponding to irreducible higher spin fields of helicities s 1 …

[HTML][HTML] Interacting massive and massless arbitrary spin fields in 4d flat space

RR Metsaev - Nuclear Physics B, 2022 - Elsevier
Massive and massless arbitrary integer spin fields propagating in four-dimensional flat
space are studied. The massive and massless fields are treated by using a light-cone gauge …

[HTML][HTML] Light-cone gauge cubic interaction vertices for massless fields in AdS (4)

RR Metsaev - Nuclear Physics B, 2018 - Elsevier
In the framework of light-cone formulation of relativistic dynamics, arbitrary spin massless
fields propagating in the four-dimensional AdS space are studied. For such fields, the …

Cubic interactions for arbitrary spin -extended massless supermultiplets in 4d flat space

RR Metsaev - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract\(\mathcal {N}\)-extended massless arbitrary integer and half-integer spin
supermultiplets in four dimensional flat space are studied in the framework of light-cone …