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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 255-272 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics B |
| Volume | 516 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Apr 1998 |
Abstract
We show that the physical degrees of freedom of the critical open string with N = 2 superconformal symmetry on the worldsheet are described by a self-dual Yang-Mills field on a hyperspace parametrised by the coordinates of the target space ℝ2,2 together with a commuting chiral spinor. A prepotential for the self-dual connection in the hyperspace generates the infinite tower of physical fields corresponding to the inequivalent pictures or spinor ghost vacua of this string. An action is presented for this tower, which describes consistent interactions amongst fields of arbitrarily high spin. An interesting truncation to a theory of five fields is seen to have no graphs of two or more loops.
Keywords
- Extended Poincaré symmetry, Higher-spin fields, N = 2 strings, Self-duality
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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In: Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 516, No. 1-2, 13.04.1998, p. 255-272.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Extended self-dual Yang-Mills from the N = 2 string
AU - Devchand, Chandrashekar
AU - Lechtenfeld, Olaf
N1 - Funding Information: We have benefitted from discussions with D.V. Alekseevsky, V. CortEs, K. Jiinemann and M.A. Vasiliev. C.D. thanks the Institut ftir Theoretische Physik der Universitiit Hannover for generous hospitality. This work was supported, in part, by the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft', grant LE-838/5-1. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1998/4/13
Y1 - 1998/4/13
N2 - We show that the physical degrees of freedom of the critical open string with N = 2 superconformal symmetry on the worldsheet are described by a self-dual Yang-Mills field on a hyperspace parametrised by the coordinates of the target space ℝ2,2 together with a commuting chiral spinor. A prepotential for the self-dual connection in the hyperspace generates the infinite tower of physical fields corresponding to the inequivalent pictures or spinor ghost vacua of this string. An action is presented for this tower, which describes consistent interactions amongst fields of arbitrarily high spin. An interesting truncation to a theory of five fields is seen to have no graphs of two or more loops.
AB - We show that the physical degrees of freedom of the critical open string with N = 2 superconformal symmetry on the worldsheet are described by a self-dual Yang-Mills field on a hyperspace parametrised by the coordinates of the target space ℝ2,2 together with a commuting chiral spinor. A prepotential for the self-dual connection in the hyperspace generates the infinite tower of physical fields corresponding to the inequivalent pictures or spinor ghost vacua of this string. An action is presented for this tower, which describes consistent interactions amongst fields of arbitrarily high spin. An interesting truncation to a theory of five fields is seen to have no graphs of two or more loops.
KW - Extended Poincaré symmetry
KW - Higher-spin fields
KW - N = 2 strings
KW - Self-duality
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