Transverse Invariant Higher Spin Fields

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new description for massless higher-spin bosonic fields using traceless tensors with transverse gauge invariance, simplifying the analysis of their degrees of freedom.

Contribution

It presents a novel formulation of higher-spin fields with transverse gauge invariance and performs Hamiltonian analysis to understand their degrees of freedom.

Findings

Higher-spin fields can be described by traceless tensors with transverse gauge invariance.

Hamiltonian analysis effectively controls the degrees of freedom.

The approach simplifies the understanding of massless higher-spin bosonic fields.

Abstract

It is shown that a symmetric massless bosonic higher-spin field can be described by a traceless tensor field with reduced (transverse) gauge invariance. The Hamiltonian analysis of the transverse gauge invariant higher-spin models is used to control a number of degrees of freedom.