N=(4,4) Type IIA String Theory on PP-Wave Background
Abstract
We construct IIA GS superstring action on the ten-dimensional pp-wave background, which arises as the compactification of eleven-dimensional pp-wave geometry along the isometry direction. The background geometry has 24 Killing spinors and among them, 16 components correspond to the non-linearly realized kinematical supersymmetry in the string action. The remaining eight components are linearly realized and shown to be independent of x^+ coordinate, which is identified with the world-sheet time coordinate of the string action in the light-cone gauge. The resultant dynamical N=(4,4) supersymmetry is investigated, which is shown to be consistent with the field contents of the action containing two free massive supermultiplets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0208074,
title = {N=(4,4) Type IIA String Theory on PP-Wave Background},
author = {Seungjoon Hyun and Hyeonjoon Shin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0208074},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
latex, 15 pages; v2: typos corrected, polished, references added