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Plenary Session 10: String Theories
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Plenary Session 10: String Theories
- Robert Group (University of Virginia)
Kimyeong Lee
(Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
11/07/2016, 16:00
Rajesh Gopakumar
(ICTS, Mumbai)
14/07/2016, 15:30
Theories of massless higher spin gauge fields were seen as curiosities until recently. In the last decade or so these theories have played a larger role in string theory. I will give a broad overview of this subject and how the Vasiliev higher spin theory in AdS captures large N field theories in 2d and 3d. These are tractable yet nontrivial, often non-supersymmetric examples of the AdS/CFT...
