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Flato-Fronsdal theorem for higher-order singletons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We prove a generalised Flato-Fronsdal theorem for higher-order, scalar and spinor, singletons. In the resulting infinite tower of bulk higher-spin fields, we point out the occurrence of partially-massless fields of all depths. This leads us to conjecture a holographic duality between a higher-spin gravity theory around AdSd+1AdS_{d+1} with the aforementioned spectrum of fields, and a free CFTdCFT_d of fundamental (higher-order) scalar and spinor singletons. As a first check of this conjecture, we find that the total Casimir energy vanishes at one loop.

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@article{arxiv.1410.7668,
  title  = {Flato-Fronsdal theorem for higher-order singletons},
  author = {Thomas Basile and Xavier Bekaert and Nicolas Boulanger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.7668},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages, no figures

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