A Comment on Continuous Spin Representations of the Poincare Group and 
Perturbative String Theory

Font, Anamaria; Quevedo, Fernando; Theisen, Stefan

doi:10.1002/prop.201400067

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A Comment on Continuous Spin Representations of the Poincare Group and Perturbative String Theory

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Theisen, Stefan
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Font, A., Quevedo, F., & Theisen, S. (2014). A Comment on Continuous Spin Representations of the Poincare Group and Perturbative String Theory. Fortschritte der Physik, 62(10-11), 975-980. doi:10.1002/prop.201400067.

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Abstract

We make a simple observation that the massless continuous spin representations of the Poincar\'e group are not present in perturbative string theory constructions. This represents one of the very few model-independent low-energy consequences of these models.