Higher Spins and Current Exchanges
Augusto Sagnotti · 2012
The simplest higher-spin interactions involve classical external currents and symmetric tensors φ µ 1 ...µ s , and convey three instructive lessons.The first is a general form of the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity in flat space for this class of fields.The second is the rationale for its disappearance in (A)dS spaces.Finally, the third is a glimpse into an option which is commonly overlooked in Field Theory, and which both higher spins and String Theory are confronting us with: one can well allow in the Lagrangians non-local terms that do not spoil the local nature of physical quantities.