Journal of High Energy Physics (Aug 2018)

Conserved higher spin supercurrents for arbitrary spin massless supermultiplets and higher spin superfield cubic interactions

  • I. L. Buchbinder,
  • S. James Gates,
  • Konstantinos Koutrolikos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2018)055
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2018, no. 8
pp. 1 – 12

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Abstract We give an explicit superspace construction of higher spin conserved supercurrents built out of 4D, N=1 $$ \mathcal{N}=1 $$ massless supermultiplets of arbitrary spin. These supercurrents are gauge invariant and generate a large class of cubic interactions between a massless supermultiplet with superspin Y 1 = s 1 + 1/2 and two massless supermultiplets of arbitrary superspin Y 2. These interactions are possible only for s 1 ≥ 2Y 2. At the equality, the supercurrent acquires its simplest form and defines the supersymmetric, higher spin extension of the linearized Bel-Robinson tensor.

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