UNFOLDED REPRESENTATION FOR RELATIVISTIC-EQUATIONS IN 2+1 ANTI-DESITTER SPACE

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VASILIEV, MA [1 ]
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[1] PN LEBEDEV PHYS INST,IE TAMM THEORET DEPT,117924 MOSCOW,RUSSIA
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10.1088/0264-9381/11/3/015
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We show how free equations of massless and massive fields in 2 + 1-dimensional anti-de Sitter space can be reformulated in a form of certain zero-curvature conditions. This 'unfolded formulation' makes it trivial to construct explicit solutions of field equations as well as evaluation of relevant Casimir operators of the anti-de Sitter group, in a coordinate-independent way. The three-dimensional theories under consideration exemplify in the simplest fashion general featurs of the unfolded formulations of relativistic equations developed previously for massless higher-spin theories in 3 + 1 dimensions, which are expected to have a wide area of applicability.
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