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Light-Cone Gauge for N=2 Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Covariant quantization of self-dual strings in 2+2 flat dimensions reduces them to their zero modes, a consequence of extended world-sheet supersymmetry. We demonstrate how to arrive at the same result more directly by employing a `double' light-cone gauge. An unconventional feature of this gauge is the removal of anticommuting degrees of freedom by commuting symmetries and vice versa. The reducibility of the N=4 string and its equivalence with the N=2 string become apparent.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0204073,
  title  = {Light-Cone Gauge for N=2 Strings},
  author = {Olaf Lechtenfeld and Warren Siegel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0204073},
  year   = {2007}
}

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