Real forms of extended Kac-Moody symmetries and higher spin gauge theories

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1787-1834

  Henneaux, Marc ^a,b,c,d   Kleinschmidt, Axel ^c,d   Nicolai, Hermann ^d  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Super )gravity; Duality; Hidden symmetries; Higher spin theory; Kac Moody algebras

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862142959     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-012-1369-9     Document Type: Article

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