Notes on strings and higher spins

By A. Sagnotti. 2011

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This review is devoted to the intriguing and still largely unexplored links between string theory and higher spins, the types of excitations that lie behind their most cherished properties. A closer look at higher spin fields provides some further clues that string theory describes a broken phase of a higher spin gauge theory. Conversely, string amplitudes contain a wealth of information on higher spin interactions that can clarify long-standing issues related to their infrared behavior. This article is part of a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical devoted to ‘Higher spin theories and holography’.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Tensionless strings from worldsheet symmetries (2015, background): “[27, 36]) but, to the best of our knowledge, never been explicitly demonstrated.”
Higher spins & strings (2014, background): “This is in the spirit of the general belief about the unbroken symmetric phase of string theory — see, for instance, [2, 3, 4, 5], and more recently in the context of AdS [71, 69].”
Towards metric-like higher spin gauge theories in three dimensions (2012, background): “Alternative approaches to higher spin interactions are also actively investigated in order to look for generalizations of Vasiliev’s construction or to make more transparent various features of the interactions (see e.g. [3–5] for reviews).”