On Higher-spin Generalisations of String Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-07 v1
Abstract
We construct BRST operators for certain higher-spin extensions of the Virasoro algebra, in which there is a spin- gauge field on the world sheet, as well as the spin-2 gauge field corrresponding to the two-dimensional metric. We use these BRST operators to study the physical states of the associated string theories, and show how they are related to certain minimal models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9304115,
title = {On Higher-spin Generalisations of String Theory},
author = {H. Lu and C. N. Pope and X. J. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9304115},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages. CTP TAMU-22/93