Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-12-12
Nucl.Phys. B634 (2002) 120-140
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages, latex
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00299-7
We construct the minimal bosonic higher spin extension of the 7D AdS algebra SO(6,2), which we call hs(8*). The generators, which have spin s=1,3,5,..., are realized as monomials in Grassmann even spinor oscillators. Irreducibility, in the form of tracelessness, is achieved by modding out an infinite dimensional ideal containing the traces. In this a key role is played by the tree bilinear traces which form an SU(2)_K algebra. We show that gauging of hs(8*) yields a spectrum of physical fields with spin s=0,2,4,...which make up a UIR of hs(8*) isomorphic to the symmetric tensor product of two 6D scalar doubletons. The scalar doubleton is the unique SU(2)_K invariant 6D doubleton. The spin s\geq 2 sector comes from an hs(8*)-valued one-form which also contains the auxiliary gauge fields required for writing the curvature constraints in covariant form. The physical spin s=0 field arises in a separate zero-form in a `quasi-adjoint' representation of hs(8*). This zero-form also contains the spin s\geq 2 Weyl tensors, i.e. the curvatures which are non-vanishing on-shell. We suggest that the hs(8*) gauge theory describes the minimal bosonic, massless truncation of M theory on AdS_7\times S^4 in an unbroken phase where the holographic dual is given by N free (2,0) tensor multiplets for large N.
Sezgin Ergin
Sundell Per
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