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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.
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Gubser, S.S., Song, W. An axial gauge ansatz for higher spin theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 36 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)036
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