ON HIGHER-SPIN GENERALIZATIONS OF STRING THEORY Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We construct BRST operators for certain higher-spin extensions of the Virasoro algebra, in which there is a spin-s gauge field on the world sheet, as well as the spin-2 gauge field corrresponding to the two-dimensional metric. We use these BRST operators to study the physical states of the associated string theories, and show how they are related to certain minimal models.

published proceedings

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A

author list (cited authors)

  • LU, H., POPE, C. N., & WANG, X. J.

citation count

  • 18

complete list of authors

  • LU, H||POPE, CN||WANG, XJ

publication date

  • April 1994