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Gauge invariant action for superstring in Ramond-Ramond plane-wave background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We present a gauge invariant action for a superstring in the plane wave background with Ramond-Ramond (RR) five-form flux. The Wess-Zumino term is given explicitly in a bilinear form of the left invariant currents by introducing a fermionic center to define the nondegenerate group metric. The reparametrization invariance generators, whose combinations are conformal generators, and fermionic constraints, half of which generate kappa-symmetry, are obtained. Equations of motion are obtained in conformal invariant and background covariant manners.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0207157,
  title  = {Gauge invariant action for superstring in Ramond-Ramond plane-wave background},
  author = {Machiko Hatsuda and Kiyoshi Kamimura and Makoto Sakaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0207157},
  year   = {2009}
}

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24 pages

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