N=2 Superstrings with (1,2m) Spacetime Signature
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-07 v1
Abstract
We show that the superstring in real dimensions, with criticality achieved by including background charges in the two real time directions, exhibits a ``coordinate-freezing'' phenomenon, whereby the momentum in one of the two time directions is constrained to take a specific value for each physical state. This effectively removes this time direction as a physical coordinate, leaving the theory with real spacetime signature. Norm calculations for low-lying physical states suggest that the theory is ghost free.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9112014,
title = {N=2 Superstrings with (1,2m) Spacetime Signature},
author = {H. Lu and C. N. Pope and X. J. Wang and K. W. Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9112014},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages