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On Higher Spin Theory: Strings, BRST, Dimensional Reductions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3

Abstract

We briefly review some modern developments in higher spin field theory and their links with superstring theory. The analysis is based on various BRST constructions allowing to derive the Lagrangians for massive and massless higher spin fields on flat or constant curvature backgrounds of arbitrary dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312252,
  title  = {On Higher Spin Theory: Strings, BRST, Dimensional Reductions},
  author = {X. Bekaert and I. L. Buchbinder and A. Pashnev and M. Tsulaia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312252},
  year   = {2014}
}

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8 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the RTN Workshop in Copenhagen, September 15-20, 2003, published version