Hybrid Superstrings in NS-NS Plane Waves
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
By using the hybrid formalism, superstrings in four-dimensional NS-NS plane waves are studied in a manifest supersymmetric manner. This description of the superstring is obtained by a field redefinition of the RNS worldsheet fields and defined as a topological N=4 string theory. The Hilbert space consists of two types of representations describing short and long strings. We study the physical spectrum to find boson-fermion asymmetry in the massless spectrum of the short string. Some massive spectrum of the short string and the massless spectrum of the long string are also studied.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0303039,
title = {Hybrid Superstrings in NS-NS Plane Waves},
author = {Hiroshi Kunitomo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0303039},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
24 pages, no figure, PTPTeX, discussion on the massless spectrum of RNS superstring is modified, to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys