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Supersymmetric Self-Dual Yang-Mills and Supergravity as Background of Green-Schwarz Superstring

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-08-27 v1

Abstract

We present the Green-Schwarz \s\-\s\-model coupled to the N=1N=1 {\it {supersymmetric}} Yang-Mills and supergravity in a four-dimensional space-time with the indefinite signature (+,+,,)(+,+,-,-). We first confirm the \k\-\k\-invariance of the Green-Schwarz action, and show that all the \b\-\b\-functions for the backgrounds vanish consistently after the use of their superfield equations. Subsequently, we inspect the supersymmetric {\it self-duality} conditions, that have been developed in our previous paper on the Yang-Mills and supergravity backgrounds. Remarkably, the Majorana-Weyl spinor dictating the {\it supersymmetric self-duality} conditions is consistent with the couplings of Green-Schwarz superstring. Such Green-Schwarz superstring is supposed to be the underlying theory of the {\it supersymmetric self-dual} Yang-Mills theory, which is conjectured to generate {\it all} exactly soluble supersymmetric systems in lower dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9203080,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Self-Dual Yang-Mills and Supergravity as Background of Green-Schwarz Superstring},
  author = {H. Nishino and S. J. Gates, and S. V. Ketov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9203080},
  year   = {2012}
}

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