Published November 2, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Green-Schwarz superstring on doubled-yet-gauged spacetime

  • 1. B.W. Lee Center for Fields, Gravity and Strings, Institute for Basic Science,Daejeon 34047 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Sogang University,35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 04107 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We construct a world-sheet action for Green-Schwarz superstring in terms of doubled-yet-gauged spacetime coordinates. For an arbitrarily curved NS-NS background, the action possesses O(10,10) T-duality, Spin(1,9)×Spin(9,1) Lorentz symmetry, coordinate gauge symmetry, spacetime doubled-yet-gauged diffeomorphisms, world-sheet diffeomorphisms and Weyl symmetry. Further, restricted to flat backgrounds, it enjoys maximal spacetime supersymmetry and kappa-symmetry. After the auxiliary coordinate gauge symmetry potential being integrated out, our action can consistently reduce to the original undoubled Green-Schwarz action. Thanks to the twofold spin groups, the action is unique: it is specific choices of the NS-NS backgrounds that distinguish IIA or IIB, as well as lead to non-Riemannian or non-relativistic superstring a la Gomis-Ooguri which might deserve the nomenclature, type IIC.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2016)005; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/17760

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2016
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 5
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
48059345
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
DUALITY; GAUGE INVARIANCE; SPACE-TIME; SPIN; SUPERSTRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUARK MODEL; STRING MODELS; SYMMETRY

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP11(2016)005; ARXIV:1609.04265; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:17760
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)