Higher Spin Gauge Theories

• Main Author: Nicolas Boulanger (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrea Campoleoni (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: string theory; Higher-spin symmetry; gauge theories; gravity; conformal field theory
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book collects various original contributions to the subject of higher spin gauge theory, as well as four review papers on the topic. The papers investigate the role of gauge fields with spin higher than two in the framework of classical and quantum field theories, the AdS/CFT correspondence and...