Deriving field theories for particles of arbitrary spin with and without supersymmetry

Mar 9, 2016

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Abstract: (World Scientific)
We review the derivation of light-cone interaction vertices for fermionic and bosonic fields of arbitrary spin. The resulting amplitudes and their factorization properties are discussed. We then show how this symmetry-based approach works for theories with extended supersymmetry like 𝒩 = 4 Yang-Mills theory and 𝒩 = 8 supergravity.
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  • 18 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of the "International Workshop on Higher Spin Gauge Theories", NTU, Singapore (4-6 November, 2015)
  • supergravity: 8
  • gauge field theory: boson
  • supersymmetry: 4
  • spin
  • factorization
  • light cone
  • scattering amplitude