WZW-like Action for Heterotic String Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We complete the construction of the Neveu-Schwarz sector of heterotic string field theory begun in hep-th/0406212 by giving a closed-form expression for the action and gauge transformations. Just as the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) action for open superstring field theory can be constructed from pure-gauge fields in bosonic open string field theory, our heterotic string field theory action is constructed from pure-gauge fields in bosonic closed string field theory. The construction involves a simple alternative form of the WZW action which is consistent with the algebraic structures of closed string field theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409018,
title = {WZW-like Action for Heterotic String Field Theory},
author = {Nathan Berkovits and Yuji Okawa and Barton Zwiebach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409018},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
22 pages, no figures, LaTeX2e