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The ${\cal N}=4$ Higher Spin Algebra for Generic $\mu$ Parameter

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-17 v2

Abstract

The N=4{\cal N}=4 higher spin generators for general superspin ss in terms of oscillators in the matrix generalization of AdS3AdS_3 Vasiliev higher spin theory at nonzero μ\mu (which is equivalent to the 't Hooft-like coupling constant λ\lambda) were found previously. In this paper, by computing the (anti)commutators between these N=4{\cal N}=4 higher spin generators for low spins s1s_1 and s2s_2 (s1+s211s_1+s_2 \leq 11) explicitly, we determine the complete N=4{\cal N}=4 higher spin algebra for generic μ\mu. The three kinds of structure constants contain the linear combination of two different generalized hypergeometric functions. These structure constants remain the same under the transformation μ(1μ)\mu \leftrightarrow (1-\mu) up to signs. We have checked that the above N=4{\cal N}=4 higher spin algebra contains the N=2{\cal N}=2 higher spin algebra, as a subalgebra, found by Fradkin and Linetsky some time ago.

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@article{arxiv.2009.04852,
  title  = {The ${\cal N}=4$ Higher Spin Algebra for Generic $\mu$ Parameter},
  author = {Changhyun Ahn and Man Hea Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04852},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

67 pages. The last statement of the subsection 2.1, the footnotes 4 and 6 and the bounds of the summation is are added. The equations (2.5),(2.6) and (4.15) are improved. The original section 5 is moved to Appendix F with the addition of the first paragraph. To appear in JHEP

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