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Twistorial and space-time descriptions of D=4 string models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We derive twistorial tensionful bosonic string action by considering on the world sheet the canonical twistorial 2-form in two-twistor space. We demonstrate the equivalence of or model to two known momentum formulations of D=4 bosonic string, with covariant worldsheet vectorial string momenta Pμm(τ,σ)P_\mu^m(\tau,\sigma) and the one with tensorial string momenta P[μν](τ,σ)P_{[\mu\nu]}(\tau,\sigma). All considered here string actions, in twistorial and mixed spinor-spacetime formulations, are classically equivalent to the Nambu-Goto action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0701182,
  title  = {Twistorial and space-time descriptions of D=4 string models},
  author = {Sergey Fedoruk and Jerzy Lukierski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0701182},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, talk given by S. Fedoruk at the XXII Max Born Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland, September 27 - 29, 2006; to be published in the Proceedings