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Light-cone continuous-spin field in AdS space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-22 v2

Abstract

We develop further the general light-cone gauge approach in AdS space and apply it for studying continuous-spin field. For such field, we find light-cone gauge Lagrangian and realization of relativistic symmetries. We find a simple realization of spin operators entering our approach. Generalization of our results to the gauge invariant Lagrangian formulation is also described. We conjecture that, in the framework of AdS/CFT, the continuous-spin AdS field is dual to light-ray conformal operator. For some particular cases, our continuous-spin field leads to reducible models. We note two reducible models. The first model consists of massive scalar, massless vector, and partial continuous-spin field involving fields of all spins greater than one, while the second model consists of massive vector, massless spin-2 field, and partial continuous-spin field involving all fields of spins greater than two.

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@article{arxiv.1903.10495,
  title  = {Light-cone continuous-spin field in AdS space},
  author = {R. R. Metsaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10495},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

12 pages, v2: Typos in text corrected. References added

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