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Published June 1990 | public
Journal Article

Gauge invariance of Poincaré generators in free higher spin gauge theories

Abstract

The authors show that for any free symmetric tensor field model derived from a geometrical action by expansion about flat space, the unavoidable gauge dependence of its stress tensor is confined to a superpotential and so does not affect the Poincare generators. This conclusion is also established for general free higher spin gauge fields by an alternative non-geometric derivation.

Additional Information

© 1990 IOP Publishing. Received 10 April 1990. This work was partially supported by NSF Grant PHY88-04561.

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