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Target Space Supersymmetric Sigma Model Calculations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-21 v1

Abstract

We briefly review the covariant formulation of the Green-Schwarz superstring by Berkovits, and describe how a detailed tree-level and one-loop analysis of this model leads, for the first time, to a derivation of the low-energy effective action of the heterotic superstring while keeping target-space supersymmetry manifest. The resulting low-energy theory is old-minimal supergravity coupled to tensor multiplet. The dilaton is part of the compensator multiplet.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611066,
  title  = {Target Space Supersymmetric Sigma Model Calculations},
  author = {Jan de Boer and Kostas Skenderis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611066},
  year   = {2016}
}

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LaTeX, 8 pages; to appear in proceedings of workshop on Gauge Theory, Applied Supersymmetry and Gauge Theory, Imperial College, July 5-10 1996

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