Actions and symmetries of NSR superstrings and D-strings
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We present all NSR superstring and super-D-string actions invariant under a set of prescribed gauge transformations, and characterize completely their global symmetries. In particular we obtain locally supersymmetric Born-Infeld actions on general backgrounds in a formulation with extra target space dimensions. The nontrivial global symmetries of the superstring actions correspond to isometries of the background, whereas super-D-string actions can have additional symmetries acting nontrivially also on the coordinates of the extra dimensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0006152,
title = {Actions and symmetries of NSR superstrings and D-strings},
author = {Friedemann Brandt and Alexander Kling and Maximilian Kreuzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0006152},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, references added and errors corrected