PIRSA:15050045

Higher-Spin Gravity : One learner's perspective

Neiman, Y. (2015). Higher-Spin Gravity : One learner's perspective. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15050045

Neiman, Yasha. Higher-Spin Gravity : One learner's perspective. Perimeter Institute, May. 05, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15050045 

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            doi = {},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15050045},
            author = {Neiman, Yasha},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Higher-Spin Gravity : One learner{\textquoteright}s perspective},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:15050045 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Yasha Neiman

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

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In these lectures, we will study the bosonic theory of higher-spin gravity in four dimensions. After discussing the reasons for interest in the theory, we will focus on the equations of motion and their content. We will aim to construct the equations from the ground up in a motivated way. The logical order will differ somewhat from standard introductions. As preliminaries, we will discuss the geometry of spinors and twistors in (anti) de Sitter space, along with various viewpoints on free massless fields with arbitrary spin. An ulterior goal of the lectures is to introduce a new version of the theory (arXiv:1502.06685), formulated on a fixed (A)dS background.