The Francia and Sagnotti formulation for higher spin

• Grant number: 24/05675-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2024
• End date: November 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Elias Leite Mendonça
• Grantee: Hudson Vinicius de Almeida Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEG). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Guaratinguetá. Guaratinguetá , SP, Brazil

Abstract

There is a simple and elegant formalism developed by D. Francia and A. Sagnotti that allows for an efficient approach to higher-spin theories. With this formalism, the authors have made progress on higher-spin theories invariant under unconstrained gauge symmetries and obtained non-local higher-spin models. In this project, the student will use their final months of undergraduate studies to initiate a study of this formalism and investigate an alternative way to recover some results obtained by the aforementioned authors.