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Gauge symmetries of strings in supertwistor space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v2

Abstract

Recently we have considered supertwistor reformulation of the D=4 N=1,2 superstring action that comprises Newman-Penrose dyad components and is classically equivalent to the Green-Schwarz one. It was shown that in the covariant kappa-symmetry gauge the supertwistor representation of the string action simplifies. Here we analyze its Hamiltonian formulation, classify the constraints on the phase-space variables, and find the covariant set of generators of the gauge symmetries. Quantum symmetries of the supertwistor representation of the string action are examined applying the world-sheet CFT technique. Considered are various generalizations of the model from the perspective of their possible relation to known twistor superstring models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606222,
  title  = {Gauge symmetries of strings in supertwistor space},
  author = {D. V. Uvarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606222},
  year   = {2010}
}

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17 pages, LaTeX; v.2 minor changes in the text, references added, misprints corrected