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Continuous spin particles from a string theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

It has been shown that the massless irreducible representations of the Poincar\'e group with continuous spin can be obtained from a classical point particle action which admits a generalization to a conformally invariant string action. The continuous spin string action is quantized in the BRST formalism. We show that the vacuum carries a continuous spin representation of the Poincar\'e group and that the spectrum is ghost-free.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0504118,
  title  = {Continuous spin particles from a string theory},
  author = {J. Mourad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0504118},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, LaTeX