Gauge fields and singletons of \(AdS_{2p+1}\)
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Gauge fields and singletons of \(AdS_{2p+1}\)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0916.53058
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007569031648
author: Sergio Ferrara
author: Christian Frønsdal
published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 1999-07-26T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806072
review text: In this Letter we show that conformally invariant \(p\)-form field strengths, of conformal degree \(p\), and the associated \((p-1)\)-form potentials, in \(2p\)-dimensional Minkowski space, can be extended to a topological singleton field theory in \(AdS_{2p+1}\). The representations of \(\text{SO} (2p,2)\) carried by these fields are all zero-center modules, just as is the case for conformal electrodynamics in four dimensions (the case \(p=2)\). Fields of conformal degree \(p + 2\) describe massless fields in the bulk; they too are zero-center modules. In fact, these representations appear as part of the gauge sector in the singleton field module. Fields of this kind are known to be required by superconformal symmetry in the case \(p=2,3\); they may play a role for \(p=4,5\) as well, though simple super extensions of \(AdS_9\) and \(AdS_{11}\) do not exist. One may point out that the self-dual five form field strength of the \(10d\), \(IIB\) string is a `singleton' candidate for \(AdS_{11}\) in the sense of this paper. This may have some implications for attempts to construct a fundamental framework for strings or \(M\)-theory.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53Z05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83E50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83E30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T13
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T60
zbMATH DE Number: 1269748
zbMATH Keywords: conformal invariance
zbMATH Keywords: composite massless particles
zbMATH Keywords: supergravity
zbMATH Keywords: anti-de Sitter superspace
zbMATH Keywords: \(p\)-form field strengths
zbMATH Keywords: Minkowski space
zbMATH Keywords: topological singleton field theory
Wikidata QID: Q56973107
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arXiv ID: hep-th/9806072
OpenAlex ID: W1571495210
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