Unconventional conformal invariance of maximal depth partially massless fields on dS4 and its relation to complex partially massless SUSY

VA Letsios - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Deser and Waldron have shown that maximal depth partially massless theories of
higher (integer) spin on four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime (dS 4) possess infinitesimal …

[HTML][HTML] The N= 2 superconformal gravitino multiplet

D Hutchings, SM Kuzenko, ESN Raptakis - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a new gauge prepotential ϒ i describing the four-dimensional N= 2
superconformal gravitino multiplet. The former naturally arises via a superspace reduction of …

[HTML][HTML] Induced action for superconformal higher-spin multiplets using SCFT techniques

SM Kuzenko, J La Fontaine, M Ponds - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, the interacting N= 1 superconformal higher-spin theory in four dimensions has
been proposed within the induced action approach. In this paper we initiate a program of …

[HTML][HTML] Light-cone gauge massive and partially-massless fields in AdS (4)

RR Metsaev - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
Using light-cone gauge approach, bosonic and fermionic massive and partially-massless
fields in AdS (4) space are considered. For such fields, light-cone gauge action is presented …

Superspin projection operators and off-shell higher-spin supermultiplets on Minkowski and anti-de Sitter superspace

D Hutchings - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05621, 2023 - arxiv.org
This thesis is dedicated to the study of (super) spin projection operators and their
applications on maximally symmetric (super) space backgrounds in three and four …

Extended superconformal higher-spin gauge theories in four dimensions

SM Kuzenko, ESN Raptakis - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Using the off-shell formulation for\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 conformal supergravity in four
dimensions, we describe superconformal higher-spin multiplets of conserved currents in a …

AdS (super) projectors in three dimensions and partial masslessness

D Hutchings, SM Kuzenko, M Ponds - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We derive the transverse projection operators for fields with arbitrary integer and
half-integer spin on three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space, AdS 3. The projectors are …

Generalised superconformal higher-spin multiplets

SM Kuzenko, M Ponds, ESN Raptakis - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We propose generalised\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 superconformal higher-spin (SCHS)
gauge multiplets of depth t,\({\Upsilon} _ {\alpha (n)\overset {\cdot}{\alpha}(m)}^{(t)}\), with …

Higher-spin Cotton tensors and massive gauge-invariant actions in AdS3

SM Kuzenko, M Ponds - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract In a conformally flat three-dimensional spacetime, the linearised higher-spin Cotton
tensor ℭ α (n)(h) is the unique conserved conformal current which is a gauge-invariant …

Spin- projectors and gauge-invariant spin- actions in maximally symmetric backgrounds

D Hutchings, M Ponds - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04523, 2024 - arxiv.org
Given a maximally symmetric $ d $-dimensional background with isometry algebra
$\mathfrak {g} $, a symmetric and traceless rank-$ s $ field $\phi_ {a (s)} $ satisfying the …