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PhD Student
I am interested in higher-spin gauge fields and related problems, particularly within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In my recent work with Prof. Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, we classified cubic interactions involving massless spin-1, massless spin-2, and partially massless (PM) spin-2 fields. We proved a uniqueness theorem: the only consistent, two-derivative, parity-even cubic vertices for these fields exist exclusively in four dimensions. These interactions correspond to multiple independent copies of conformal gravity coupled to Yang–Mills fields. Moving forward, I aim to investigate how higher-spin theories—especially in AdS backgrounds—can shed light on questions in high-energy physics, particularly those linking quantum gravity, holography, and early-universe cosmology.
Selected publications:
N. Boulanger, S. Garcia-Saenz, S. Pan and L. Traina, Cubic interactions for massless and partially massless spin-1 and spin-2 fields, arXiv: 2407.05865 [hep-th].
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