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Supertwistors and Cubic String Field Theory for Open N=2 Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

The known Lorentz invariant string field theory for open N=2 strings is combined with a generalization of the twistor description of anti-self-dual (super) Yang-Mills theories. We introduce a Chern-Simons-type Lagrangian containing twistor variables and derive the Berkovits-Siegel covariant string field equations of motion via the twistor correspondence. Both the purely bosonic and the maximally space-time supersymmetric cases are considered.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0406179,
  title  = {Supertwistors and Cubic String Field Theory for Open N=2 Strings},
  author = {Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0406179},
  year   = {2009}
}

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1+9 pages; v2: minor clarification, 3 references added, published version

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