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Green-Schwarz superstring as subsector of Yang-Mills theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-08-14 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider Yang-Mills theory with N=2 super translation group in ten auxiliary dimensions as the structure group. The gauge theory is defined on a direct product manifold \Sigma_2\times H^2, where \Sigma_2 is a two-dimensional Lorentzian manifold and H^2 is the open disc in R^2 with the boundary S^1=\partial H^2. We show that in the adiabatic limit, when the metric on H^2 is scaled down, the Yang-Mills action supplemented by a Wess-Zumino-type term becomes the Green-Schwarz superstring action.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02175,
  title  = {Green-Schwarz superstring as subsector of Yang-Mills theory},
  author = {Alexander D. Popov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02175},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, v2: introduction extended, concluding remarks and references added