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Superparticle and superstring in AdS_3 x S^3 Ramond-Ramond background in light-cone gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v1

Abstract

We discuss superparticle and superstring dynamics in AdS_3 x S^3 supported by R-R 3-form background using light-cone gauge approach. Starting with the superalgebra psu(1,1|2) + psu(1,1|2) representing the basic symmetry of this background we find the light-cone superparticle Hamiltonian. We determine the harmonic decomposition of light-cone superfield describing fluctuations of type IIB supergravity fields expanded near AdS_3 x S^3 background and compute the corresponding Kaluza-Klein spectrum. We fix the fermionic and bosonic light-cone gauges in the covariant Green-Schwarz AdS_3 x S^3 superstring action and find the light-cone string Hamiltonian. We also obtain a realization of the generators of psu(1,1|2) + psu(1,1|2) in terms of the superstring 2-d fields in the light-cone gauge.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011191,
  title  = {Superparticle and superstring in AdS_3 x S^3 Ramond-Ramond background in light-cone gauge},
  author = {R. R. Metsaev and A. A. Tseytlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011191},
  year   = {2009}
}

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32 pages, latex