An axial gauge ansatz for higher spin theories
arXiv:1405.7045 · doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2014)036
Abstract
We present an ansatz which makes the equations of motion more tractable for the simplest of Vasiliev's four-dimensional higher spin theories. The ansatz is similar to axial gauge in electromagnetism. We present a broad class of solutions in the gauge where the spatial connection vanishes, and we discuss the lift of one of these solutions to a full spacetime solution via a gauge transformation.
12 pages. v2: Noted a complication with spacetime interpretation. v3: Revised section 4, correcting a limiting process