Projectively-Compact Spinor Vertices and Space-Time Spin-Locality in Higher-Spin Theory

TL;DR

This paper introduces the concepts of projectively-compact and spin-local spinor vertices in higher-spin theory, showing their implications for space-time locality and the structure of interaction vertices.

Contribution

It defines projectively-compact spinor vertices, proves their space-time spin-locality, and links them to minimal non-locality solutions in higher-spin interactions.

Findings

Verified known cubic vertices are projectively-compact.

Projectively-compact vertices imply space-time spin-locality for quartic vertices.

Proposed projectively-compact vertices as solutions for minimally non-local higher-spin interactions.

Abstract

The concepts of compact and projectively-compact spin-local spinor vertices are introduced. Vertices of this type are shown to be space-time spin-local, i.e. their restriction to any finite subset of fields is space-time local. The known spinor spin-local cubic vertices with the minimal number of space-time derivatives are verified to be projectively-compact. This has the important consequence that spinor spin-locality of the respective quartic vertices would imply their space-time spin-locality. More generally, it is argued that the proper class of solutions of the non-linear higher-spin equations that leads to the minimally non-local (presumably space-time spin-local) vertices is represented by the projectively-compact vertices. The related aspects of the higher-spin holographic correspondence are briefly discussed.