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We study propagation of a point particle in a massless higher-spin background employing the light-cone gauge approach. We find the point particle action and the associated phase space Poincare charges at the leading order in higher-spin fields. We also compare our results with the analogous covariant results available in the literature.
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Ivanovskiy, V., Ponomarev, D. Light-cone formalism for a point particle in a higher-spin background. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 14 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)014
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