On special quartic interaction of higher spin gauge fields with scalars and gauge symmetry commutator in the linear approximation

Abstract

Local quartic interaction of higher-spin gauge field with a scalar field is considered. In this special case, the nontrivial task of construction of interacting Lagrangian for the higher spin field in physical gauge was solved using the full power of Noether's procedure. As a result, the linear on-field gauge transformation is obtained and the corresponding commutator of transformation is analyzed. To understand the closure of this algebra the right-hand side of this commutator is classified in respect to gauge transformations coming from cubic interactions with different higher spin symmetric tensor fields and with mixed symmetry tensor fields transformations.