ABJ triality: from higher spin fields to strings

Identification of bulk coupling constant in higher spin/ABJ correspondence

We study the conjectured duality between the N = 6 Vasiliev higher spin theory on AdS4 and 3d N = 6 superconformal Chern-Simons matter theory known as the ABJ theory. We discuss how the parameters in the ABJ theory should be related to the bulk coupling constant in the Vasiliev theory. For this purpose, we compute two-point function of stress tensor in the ABJ theory by using supersymmmetry loc...

Transverse Invariant Higher Spin Fields

It is shown that a symmetric massless bosonic higher-spin field can be described by a traceless tensor field with reduced (transverse) gauge invariance. The Hamiltonian analysis of the transverse gauge invariant higher-spin models is used to control a number of degrees of freedom.

The Proton - Spin Crisis : another ABJ anomaly ?

Kinematics of Higher-spin Fields

This dissertation argues a quantum theory for higher-spin fields. Causality is discussed in both classical and quantum senses in a field theory. Renormalizability is also considered. Equations of motion are derived from a generalised concept of linearised Christoffel symbols for these higher-spin fields. It is seen that a minimally-coupled Rarita-Schwinger field violates causality, and that sup...

Bosonic Massless Higher Spin Fields from Matrix Model

We study matrix models as a new approach to formulate massless higher spin gauge field theory. As a first step in this direction, we show that the free equation of motion of bosonic massless higher spin gauge fields can be derived from that of a matrix model. e-mail: [email protected]