Conformal Invariance of Partially Massless Higher Spins
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We show that there exist conformally invariant theories for all spins in d = 4 de Sitter space, namely the partially massless models with higher derivative gauge invariance under a scalar gauge parameter. This extends the catalog from the two known gauge models – Maxwell and partially massless spin 2 – to all spins.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008