Higher-spin theory
A theory with particles of spin more than two / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Higher-spin theory or higher-spin gravity is a common name for field theories that contain massless fields of spin greater than two. Usually, the spectrum of such theories contains the graviton as a massless spin-two field, which explains the second name. Massless fields are gauge fields and the theories should be (almost) completely fixed by these higher-spin symmetries. Higher-spin theories are supposed to be consistent quantum theories and, for this reason, to give examples of quantum gravity. Most of the interest in the topic is due to the AdS/CFT correspondence where there is a number of conjectures relating higher-spin theories to weakly coupled conformal field theories. It is important to note that only certain parts of these theories are known at present (in particular, standard action principles are not known) and not many examples have been worked out in detail except some specific toy models (such as the higher-spin extension of pure Chern–Simons,[1][2] Jackiw–Teitelboim,[3] selfdual (chiral)[4][5] and Weyl gravity theories[6][7]).