Metaplectic representation and ordering (in)dependence in Vasiliev’s higher spin gravity

Duality in Gravity and Higher Spin Gauge Fields

Dual field theory realisations are given for linearised gravity in terms of gauge fields in exotic representations of the Lorentz group. The field equations and dual representations are discussed for a wide class of higher spin gauge fields. For non-linear Einstein gravity, such transformations can be implemented locally in light-cone gauge, or partially implemented in the presence of a Killing...

On the Weyl Representation of Metaplectic Operators

Abstract. We study the Weyl representation of metaplectic operators associated to a symplectic matrix having no non-trivial fixed point, and justify a formula suggested in earlier work of Mehlig and Wilkinson. We give precise calculations of the associated Maslovtype indices; these indices intervene in a crucial way in Gutzwiller’s formula of semiclassical mechanics, and are simply related to a...

A note on the spin connection representation of gravity

The formulation of gravity in 3 + 1 dimensions in which the spin connection is the basic field (ω-frame) leads to a theory with first and second class constraints. Here, the Dirac brackets for the second class constraints are evaluated and the Dirac algebra of first class constraints is found to be the usual algebra associated to space-time reparametrizations and tangent space rotations. This e...

Feynman path integrals on phase space and the metaplectic representation

On the Number of Local Newforms in a Metaplectic Representation

The nonarchimedean local analogues of modular forms of half-integral weight with level and character are certain vectors in irreducible, admissible, genuine representations of the metaplectic group over a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic zero. Two natural level raising operators act on such vectors, leading to the concepts of oldforms and newforms. We prove that the number of newfor...