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This tag is for questions relating to the Degree of Freedom (DOF) of a mechanical system. It is the number of parameters that determine the state of a physical system and is important to the analysis of systems of bodies in mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering, robotics, and structural engineering.

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Counting of degrees of freedom in Higher Spin Theories in curved spacetime

In 4d Minkowski, a (bosonic) tensor field with spin $s\in\mathbb{N}_+$ are constrained by Poincaré symmetry, and the physical degrees of freedom can be counted by considering the little group: a spin- …
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