2020/06/10 by Evgeny Skvortsov, Tung Tran, Mirian Tsulaia
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Dimension (graph theory) #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Light cone #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Quartic function #Space (punctuation) #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spins #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.102.126010
published as Phys. Rev. D 102, 126010 (2020) · 5 pages
arxiv created 2020/06/10 · openalex created_date 2020/06/19 · openalex publication_date 2020/12/07 · arxiv updated 2021/01/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
An example of a consistent theory with massive higher spin fields is constructed in flat space-time of dimension three. The action is written in the light-cone gauge. The theory has certain stringlike features, e.g., its spectrum is unbounded in spin and mass; the theory admits Chan-Paton factors. The quartic and the higher tree-level amplitudes vanish, which softens the UV behavior at the loop level and provides a new mechanism of how massive higher spin states can resolve the quantum gravity problem.