Conformal Fields in Higher Dimensions
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We generalize, to any space-time dimension, the unitarity bounds of highest weight UIR’s of the conformal groups with Lie algebras so(2, d). We classify gauge theories invariant under so(2, d), both integral and half-integral spins. A similar analysis is carried out for the algebras so(2n). We study new unitary modules of the conformal algebra in d > 4, that have no analogue for d ≤ 4 as they cannot be obtained by “squaring” singletons. This may suggest the interpretation of higher dimensional non-trivial conformal field theories as theories of “tensionless” p-branes of which tensionless strings in d = 6 are just particular examples.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008