PT Journal
AU Bandos, IA
   de Azcarraga, JA
   Meliveo, C
TI Conformal higher spin theory in extended tensorial superspace
SO Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics
JI Fortschritte Phys.-Prog. Phys.
PY 2012
BP 861
EP 867
VL 60
IS 7-8
DI 10.1002/prop.201200046
LA English
DE Higher spin theory; conformal symmetry; superfields; tensorial superspaces
AB We discuss the formulation of free conformal higher spin theories with extended N = 2, 4, 8 supersymmetry in N-extended tensorial superspaces. The superfield higher spin equations can be obtained by quantizing a superparticle model in N-extended tensorial superspace. The N-extended higher spin supermultiplets just contain scalar and spinor fields in tensorial space so that, in contrast with the standard (super)space approach, no nontrivial generalizations of the Maxwell or Einstein equations to tensorial space appear when N > 2. For N = 4, 8, the higher spin-tensorial components of the extended tensorial superfields are expressed through additional scalar and spinor fields in tensorial space which obey the same free higher spin equations, but that are axion-like in the sense that they possess Peccei-Quinn-like symmetries.
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