Classical Double Copy and Higher-Spin Fields
Abstract
Kerr-Schild double copy is shown to extend naturally to all free symmetric gauge fields propagating on (A )d S in any dimension. Similarly to the standard lower-spin case, the higher-spin multicopy comes along with the zeroth, single, and double copies. The masslike term of the Fronsdal spin s field equations fixed by gauge symmetry and the mass of the zeroth copy both appear to be remarkably fine-tuned to fit the multicopy pattern forming a spectrum organized by higher-spin symmetry. On the black hole side this curious observation fills up the list of miraculous properties of the Kerr solution.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 2023
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.071603
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2210.04704
- Bibcode:
- 2023PhRvL.130g1603D
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, references added. v3: minor corrections, replaced with the journal version+appendix