Higher spin N = 8 supergravity

ar X iv : h ep - t h / 98 05 12 5 v 1 2 0 M ay 1 99 8 CTP TAMU - 19 / 98 hep - th / 9805125 Higher Spin N = 8

The product of two N = 8 supersingletons yields an infinite tower of massless states of higher spin in four dimensional anti de Sitter space. All the states with spin s ≥ 1 correspond to generators of Vasiliev's super higher spin algebra shs E (8|4) which contains the D = 4, N = 8 anti de Sitter superalgebra OSp(8|4). Gauging the higher spin algebra and introducing a matter multiplet in a quasi...

Towards Massless Higher Spin Extension of D = 5 , N = 8

The AdS5 superalgebra PSU(2, 2|4) has an infinite dimensional extension, which we denote by hs(2, 2|4). We show that the gauging of hs(2, 2|4) gives rise to a spectrum of physical massless fields which coincides with the symmetric tensor product of two AdS5 spin-1 doubletons (i.e. the N=4 SYM multiplets living on the boundary of AdS5). This product decomposes into levels l = 0, 1, 2, ..,∞ of ma...

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On N = 1 , 2 , 4 Higher Spin Gauge Theories in Four Dimensions

We study N = 1, 2, 4 higher spin superalgebras in four dimensions and higher spin gauge theories based on them. We extend the existing minimal N = 2, 4 theories and find a minimal N = 1 theory. Utilizing the basic structure of the minimalN = 8 theory, we express the full field equations for the N = 1, 2, 4 theories in a universal form without introducing Kleinian operators. We also use a non-mi...

Three - dimensional N = 8 conformal supergravity and its coupling to BLG M 2 - branes

This paper is concerned with the problem of coupling the N = 8 superconformal Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson (BLG) theory to N = 8 conformal supergravity in three dimensions. We start by constructing the on-shell N = 8 conformal supergravity in three dimensions consisting of a Chern-Simons type term for each of the gauge fields: the spin connection, the SO(8) R-symmetry gauge field and the spin 3/2 ...