Green-Schwarz superstring on doubled-yet-gauged spacetime
Abstract
We construct a world-sheet action for Green-Schwarz superstring in terms of doubled-yet-gauged spacetime coordinates. For an arbitrarily curved NS-NS background, the action possesses T-duality, Lorentz symmetry, coordinate gauge symmetry, spacetime doubled-yet-gauged diffeomorphisms, world-sheet diffeomorphisms and Weyl symmetry. Further, restricted to flat backgrounds, it enjoys maximal spacetime supersymmetry and kappa-symmetry. After the auxiliary coordinate gauge symmetry potential being integrated out, our action can consistently reduce to the original undoubled Green-Schwarz action. Thanks to the twofold spin groups, the action is unique: it is specific choices of the NS-NS backgrounds that distinguish IIA or IIB, as well as lead to non-Riemannian or non-relativistic superstring a la Gomis-Ooguri which might deserve the nomenclature, type IIC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.04265,
title = {Green-Schwarz superstring on doubled-yet-gauged spacetime},
author = {Jeong-Hyuck Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04265},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
1+27 pages. No figure. v2) Wess-Zumino term identified, More Refs. To be published in JHEP