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We construct a Super-Grassmannian for $n-$point functions in $\mathcal{N}=2$ to $4$ SCFT$_3$. The constraints imposed by super-conformal invariance and $R-$symmetry are completely manifest in this formalism through (operator-valued) delta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S. , Adithya A Rao

It is shown that the large $N$ limit of SU(N) YM in $curved$ $m$-dim backgrounds can be subsumed by a higher $m+n$ dimensional gravitational theory which can be identified to an $m$-dim generally invariant gauge theory of diffs $N$, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlos Castro

We consider fermionic fields of higher spin on a four-dimensional de Sitter background. A particular emphasis is placed on the Rarita-Schwinger spin-$\tfrac{3}{2}$ case. Both massive fields and gauge fields are considered, and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Dionysios Anninos , Chiara Baracco , Vasileios A. Letsios , Guillermo A. Silva

We study conical defect geometries in the SL(N) Chern-Simons formulation of higher spin gauge theories in AdS_3. We argue that (for N\geq 4) there are special values of the deficit angle for which these geometries are actually smooth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Alejandra Castro , Rajesh Gopakumar , Michael Gutperle , Joris Raeymaekers

Fermionic zero modes around non-abelian vortices are shown that they constitute two $N=2$, $d=1$ supersymmetric quantum mechanics algebras. These two algebras can be combined under certain circumstances to form a central charge extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 K. Kleidis , V. K. Oikonomou

There is a great number of higher-spin gravities in $3d$ that can have both finite and infinite spectra of fields and can be formulated as Chern-Simons theories. It was believed that this is impossible in higher dimensions, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-20 Mattia Serrani

We focus on the geometrical reformulation of free higher spin supermultiplets in $4\rm{D},~\mathcal{N}=1$ flat superspace. We find that there is a de Wit-Freedman like hierarchy of superconnections with simple gauge transformations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 I. L. Buchbinder , S. James Gates , K. Koutrolikos

We construct a class of extended shift symmetries for fields of all integer spins in de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. These generalize the shift symmetry, galileon symmetry, and special galileon symmetry of massless scalars in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 James Bonifacio , Kurt Hinterbichler , Austin Joyce , Rachel A. Rosen

Given the success of the deconstruction program in obtaining ghost-free massive gravity from 5-D Einstein gravity, we propose a modification of the deconstruction procedure that incorporates supersymmetry at the linear level. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-15 Nicholas A. Ondo , Andrew J. Tolley

We study theories of 4D, N=1 supersymmetric massless, arbitrary integer superspins. A new state-of-the art is being established by the discovery of a new series of such theories for arbitrary superspin Y (Y=s for any integer s) The lowest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-27 S. James Gates, , Konstantinos Koutrolikos

We propose a duality between a higher spin N=1 supergravity on AdS_3 and a large N limit of a family of N=(1,1) superconformal field theories. The gravity theory is an N=1 truncation of the N=2 supergravity found by Prokushkin and Vasiliev,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Thomas Creutzig , Yasuaki Hikida , Peter B. Ronne

In this work we construct an infinite class of four-point functions for massless higher-spin fields in flat space that are consistent with the gauge symmetry. In the Lagrangian picture, these reflect themselves in a peculiar non-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Taronna

The correspondences proposed previously between higher spin gauge theories and free singleton field theories were recently extended into a more complete picture by Klebanov and Polyakov in the case of the minimal bosonic theory in D=4 to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Sezgin , P. Sundell

We study unitary conformal field theories with a unique stress tensor and at least one higher-spin conserved current in four dimensions. We prove that every such theory contains an infinite number of higher-spin conserved currents of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-06 Vasyl Alba , Kenan Diab

We construct a four dimensional Yang-Mills theory with ${\cal N}=4$ twisted supersymmetry whose classical vacua correspond to four dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The theory utilizes a complex gauge field whose real part is a spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 Simon Catterall

Cubic vertices for symmetric higher-spin gauge fields of integer spins in $(A)dS_d$ are analyzed. $(A)dS_d$ generalization of the previously known action in $AdS_4$, that describes cubic interactions of symmetric massless fields of all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Mikhail A. Vasiliev

We consider Einstein gravity coupled to an n-form field strength in D dimensions. Such a theory cannot be supersymmetrized in general, we nevertheless propose a pseudo-Killing spinor equation and show that the AdS X Sphere vacua have the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-05 H. Lu , Zhao-Long Wang

We give a one-parameter family of exact solutions to four-dimensional higher-spin gauge theory invariant under a deformed higher-spin extension of SO(3,1) and parameterized by a zero-form invariant. All higher-spin gauge fields vanish,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 E. Sezgin , P. Sundell

We construct, for the first time, an off-shell supersymmetric continuous spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, in both constrained and unconstrained Lagrangian formulations. As an extension to the on-shell description [1],…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Mojtaba Najafizadeh

Using the BRST approach to higher spin field theories we develop a generic technique for constructing the cubic interaction vertices for N=1 supersymmetric massless higher spin fields on four, six and ten dimensional flat backgrounds. Such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 I. L. Buchbinder , V. A. Krykhtin , Mirian Tsulaia , Dorin Weissman