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Green-Schwarz superstring on doubled-yet-gauged spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v2

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 O(10,10)\mathbf{O}(10,10) T-duality, Spin(1,9)×Spin(9,1)\mathbf{Spin}(1,9)\times\mathbf{Spin}(9,1) 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.

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@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

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