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# An Action for higher spin gauge theory in four dimensions

@article{Doroud2011AnAF,
title={An Action for higher spin gauge theory in four dimensions},
author={Nima Doroud and Lee Smolin},
journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory},
year={2011}
}
• Published 16 February 2011
• Physics
• arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory
An action principle is presented for Vasiliev's Bosonic higher spin gauge theory in four spacetime dimensions. The action is of the form of a broken topological field theory, and arises by an extension of the MacDowell-Mansouri formulation of general relativity. In the latter theory the local degrees of freedom of general relativity arise by breaking the gauge invariance of a topological theory from $sp(4)$ to the Lorentz algebra. In Vasiliev's theory the infinite number of degrees of freedom…
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