Review of the Green-Schwarz mechanism with an eye towards KK-compactification to 6d (see also at D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT):
On dimensional reduction of D=11 supergravity on Calabi-Yau 3-folds to D=5 supergravity (cf. M-theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds):
On D=6 supergravity:
Sergio Ferrara, Fabio Riccioni, Augusto Sagnotti, Tensor and Vector Multiplets in Six-Dimensional Supergravity, Nucl. Phys. B 519 (1998) 115-140 [arXiv:hep-th/9711059, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00837-7]
Fabio Riccioni, Augusto Sagnotti, Some Properties of Tensor Multiplets in Six-Dimensional Supergravity, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 67 (1998) 68-73 [arXiv:hep-th/9711077, doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00121-2]
On orientifolds and RR-field tadpole cancellation:
Augusto Sagnotti, Open strings and their symmetry groups in G. Mack et. al. (eds.) Cargese ’87, “Non-perturbative Quantum Field Theory,” (Pergamon Press, 1988) p. 521 (arXiv:hep-th/0208020)
Carlo Angelantonj, Augusto Sagnotti, Open Strings, Phys. Rept. 371 (2002) 1-150 Erratum ibid. 376:339-405 (2003) [arXiv:hep-th/0204089]
On higher spin gauge theory as string field theory for vanishing string tension:
Augusto Sagnotti, M. Tsulaia, On higher spins and the tensionless limit of String Theory, Nucl. Phys. B682:83-116, 2004 (arXiv:hep-th/0311257)
Augusto Sagnotti, M. Taronna, String Lessons for Higher-Spin Interactions, Nucl. Phys. B842:299-361,2011 (arXiv:1006.5242)
Augusto Sagnotti, Notes on Strings and Higher Spins (arXiv:1112.4285)
Discussion of the Velo-Zwanziger problem for the higher string excitations that appear in string theory:
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