GL Flatness of OSp ( 1 | 2 n ) and Higher Spin Field Theory from Dynamics in Tensorial Spaces ∗
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A main purpose of this paper is to explain how the theory of higher spin fields in flat D = 4 space and in AdS4 emerges as a result of the quantization of a superparticle propagating in so called tensorial superspaces which have the property of a ‘generalized conformal’ or simply General Linear (GL) flatness.
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