Higher Spin N=8 Supergravity in AdS_4

Details Higher Spin N=8 Supergravity in AdS_4 Higher Spin N=8 Supergravity in AdS_4

1999-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9903020v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

28 pages, latex, uses sprocl.sty, contribution to the John Hopkins Workshop, August 1998, Chalmers, Sweden

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We review the basic structure of the higher spin extension of D=4, N=8 AdS supergravity. The theory is obtained by gauging the higher spin superalgebra shs^E(8|4) by a procedure pioneered by Vasiliev. The algebra shs^E(8|4) is a subalgebra of the enveloping algebra of OSp(8|4). The physical states of the theory are in one to one correspondence with the symmetric product of two OSp(8|4) singletons. This singleton theory, which may be viewed in a certain limit as the supermembrane theory on AdS_4 x S^7, is expected to describe the dynamics of the higher spin theory. Thus, the higher spin N=8 supergravity on AdS_4 is conjectured to describe the field theory limit of M-theory on AdS_4 x S^7.

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