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Fields relating to the anti-de Sitter group
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A singleton field theory is a quantum field theory that treats massless particles in anti-de Sitter spacetime as pairs of "singletons". Originally introduced by Moshé Flato and Christian Frønsdal, they are based on Paul Dirac's work on the representation theory of the group SO(3,2).

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  1. Bergshoeff, Eric; Salam, Abdus; Sezgin, Ergin; Tanii, Yoshiaki (30 November 1988). "N = 8 supersingleton quantum field theory" (PDF). Nuclear Physics B. 305 (3): 497–515. Bibcode:1988NuPhB.305..497B. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(88)90078-8. S2CID 122773351.
  2. Flato, Moshé; Frønsdal, Christian; Sternheimer, Daniel (12 January 1999). "Singleton physics". arXiv:hep-th/9901043.
  3. Dirac, P. A. M. (1963). "A Remarkable Representation of the 3 + 2 de Sitter Group". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 4 (7): 901–909. Bibcode:1963JMP.....4..901D. doi:10.1063/1.1704016.
  4. Günaydin, M.; Nilsson, B. E. W.; Sierra, G.; Townsend, P. K. (21 August 1986). "Singletons and superstrings" (PDF). Physics Letters B. 176 (1–2): 45–49. Bibcode:1986PhLB..176...45G. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90922-6.
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