Dynamics of higher spin fields and tensorial space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 910-951

  Bandos, Igor ^a,d   Bekaert, Xavier ^b   De Azcárraga, Jose A ^a   Sorokin, Dmitri ^c   Tsulaia, Mirian ^c,e,f  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d KHARKOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^e Institute of Physics   (Georgia)

^f JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Gauge Symmetry; Space Time Symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444460609     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/031     Document Type: Article

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