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Type IIB Green-Schwarz superstring in plane wave Ramond-Ramond background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We construct the covariant κ\kappa-symmetric superstring action for type IIBIIB superstring on plane wave space supported by Ramond-Ramond background. The action is defined as a 2d sigma-model on the coset superspace. We fix the fermionic and bosonic light-cone gauges in the covariant Green-Schwarz superstring action and find the light-cone string Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian. The resulting light-cone gauge action is quadratic in both the bosonic and fermionic superstring 2d fields, and therefore, this model can be explicitly quantized. We also obtain a realization of the generators of the basic superalgebra in terms of the superstring 2d fields in the light-cone gauge.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0112044,
  title  = {Type IIB Green-Schwarz superstring in plane wave Ramond-Ramond background},
  author = {R. R. Metsaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0112044},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

29 pages, LaTeX, v3: misprints in equations (5.34) and (5.41) are corrected

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