Projectively-compact spinor vertices and space-time spin-locality in higher-spin theory

Abstract

The concepts of compact and projectively-compact spin-local spinor vertices are introduced. Vertices of this type are shown to be space-time spin-local, i.e., their restriction to any finite subset of fields is space-time local. The known spinor spin-local cubic vertices with the minimal number of space-time derivatives are verified to be projectively-compact. This has the important consequence that spinor spin-locality of the respective quartic vertices would imply their space-time spin-locality. More generally, it is argued that the proper class of solutions of the non-linear higher-spin equations that leads to the minimally non-local (presumably space-time spin-local) vertices is represented by the projectively-compact vertices. The related aspects of the higher-spin holographic correspondence are briefly discussed.