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Abstract: (IOP)
This review is devoted to the intriguing and still largely unexplored links between string theory and higher spins, the types of excitations that lie behind their most cherished properties. A closer look at higher spin fields provides some further clues that string theory describes a broken phase of a higher spin gauge theory. Conversely, string amplitudes contain a wealth of information on higher spin interactions that can clarify long-standing issues related to their infrared behavior.This article is part of a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical devoted to ‘Higher spin theories and holography’.
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  • 36 pages, LaTeX, one eps figure. Misprints corrected. Version to be reprinted in a special J. Phys. A issue devoted to Higher--Spin Theory, eds. M. Gaberdiel and M.A. Vasiliev
  • spin: high
  • string model
  • gauge field theory
  • membrane model
  • excited state
  • supergravity