A Comment on Continuous Spin Representations of the Poincaré Group and Perturbative String Theory

Abstract

We make a simple observation that the massless continuous spin representations of the Poincaré group are not present in perturbative string theory constructions. This represents one of the very few model-independent low-energy consequences of these models.

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