Singleton Strings
arXiv:hep-th/0701081 · doi:10.1002/prop.200610367
Abstract
In this note, we briefly introduce singleton representations and discuss their relevance to the study of string and brane configurations in AdS space, their tensionless limit and the connection with higher-spin gauge theory. We then discuss the main properties of subcritical SO(D-1,2) WZW models featuring singletons and their composites as primary fields. After a suitable gauging, these models are good candidates for a fundamental, partonic description of tensionless branes in AdS. Their massless sector provides an affine Lie-algebraic setting for the study of higher-spin symmetries. Based on hep-th/0508124, hep-th/0701051 and work in progress.
7 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the proceedings of the RTN project "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe" conference in Naples, October 9 - 13, 2006
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