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Higher-spin geometry and string theory

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, ISSN: 1742-6596, Vol: 33, Issue: 1, Page: 57-72
2006
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    8

Article Description

The theory of freely-propagating massless higher spins is usually formulated via gauge fields and parameters subject to trace constraints. We summarize a proposal allowing to forego them by introducing only a pair of additional fields in the Lagrangians. In this setting, external currents satisfy usual Noether-like conservation laws, the field equations can be nicely related to those emerging from Open String Field Theory in the low-tension limit, and if the additional fields are eliminated without reintroducing the constraints a geometric, non-local description of the theory manifests itself. © 2006 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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