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Nonabelian Fradkin-Vasiliev cubic interactions for dual-graviton-like gauge fields with gravity and themselves are constructed in anti-de Sitter spacetime. The Young diagrams of gauge potentials have shapes of “tall-hooks”, i.e. two columns the second of height one.
The underlying nonabelian algebra is a Clifford algebra with the anti-de Sitter signature. We also discuss the universal enveloping realization of higher-spin algebras, showing that there is a one-parameter family of algebras compatible with unitarity, which is reminiscent of d = 3 deformed oscillators.
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Boulanger, N., Skvortsov, E.D. Higher-spin algebras and cubic interactions for simple mixed-symmetry fields in AdS spacetime. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 63 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2011)063
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