On the tensionless limit of string theory, off-shell higher spin interaction vertices and BCFW recursion relations

A Fotopoulos, M Tsulaia - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
We construct an off-shell extension of cubic interaction vertices between massless bosonic
Higher Spin fields on a flat background which can be obtained from perturbative bosonic …

Six-dimensional one-loop divergences in quantum gravity from the = 4 spinning particle

F Bastianelli, F Comberiati, F Fecit, F Ori - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In this work, we investigate the computation of the counterterms necessary for the
renormalization of the one-loop effective action of quantum gravity using both the worldline …

Quantum mechanical path integrals in the first quantised approach to quantum field theory

JP Edwards, C Schubert - arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10004, 2019 - arxiv.org
Perturbative quantum field theory usually uses second quantisation and Feynman diagrams.
The worldline formalism provides an alternative approach based on first quantised particle …

Worldline master formulas for the dressed electron propagator. Part I. Off-shell amplitudes

N Ahmadiniaz, VM Guzmán, F Bastianelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract In the first-quantised worldline approach to quantum field theory, a long-standing
problem has been to extend this formalism to amplitudes involving open fermion lines while …

Manifestly covariant worldline actions from coadjoint orbits. Part I. Generalities and vectorial descriptions

T Basile, E Joung, TH Oh - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We derive manifestly covariant actions of spinning particles starting from coadjoint
orbits of isometry groups, by using Hamiltonian reductions. We show that the defining …

Unfolding mixed-symmetry fields in AdS and the BMV conjecture: I. General formalism

N Boulanger, C Iazeolla, P Sundell - Journal of High Energy …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present some generalities of unfolded on-shell dynamics that are useful in analysing the
BMV conjecture for mixed-symmetry fields in constantly curved backgrounds. In particular …

Bosonic conformal higher-spin fields of any symmetry

MA Vasiliev - Nuclear physics B, 2010 - Elsevier
Free Lagrangians are found both for gauge and non-gauge bosonic conformal fields of any
symmetry type and in any space–time dimension. Conformal gauge fields of various types …

[HTML][HTML] Infinite (continuous) spin particle in constant curvature space

IL Buchbinder, SA Fedoruk, AP Isaev, VA Krykhtin - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
We present a new particle model that generalize for constant curvature space an infinite spin
particle in flat space. The model is described by commuting Weyl spinor additional …

A worldline theory for supergravity

R Bonezzi, A Meyer, I Sachs - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract The\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 supersymmetric spinning particle admits several consistent
quantizations, related to the gauging of different subgroups of the SO (4) R-symmetry on the …

Einstein gravity from the spinning particle

R Bonezzi, A Meyer, I Sachs - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We obtain a manifestly background independent BRST quantization of
the\(\mathcal {N}= 4\) supersymmetric spinning particle. We show that nilpotency of the …