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A Heterotic N=2 String with Space-Time Supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We reconsider the issue of embedding space-time fermions into the four-dimensional N=2 world-sheet supersymmetric string. A new heterotic theory is constructed, taking the right-movers from the N=4 topological extension of the conventional N=2 string but a c=0 conformal field theory supporting target-space supersymmetry for the left-moving sector. The global bosonic symmetry of the full formalism proves to be U(1,1), just as in the usual N=2 string. Quantization reveals a spectrum of only two physical states, one boson and one fermion, which fall in a multiplet of (1,0) supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103049,
  title  = {A Heterotic N=2 String with Space-Time Supersymmetry},
  author = {Stefano Bellucci and Anton Galajinsky and Olaf Lechtenfeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103049},
  year   = {2009}
}

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