A Sigma Model Interpretation of Green-Schwarz Covariant Superstring Action
Marc Henneaux, Luca Mezincescu (Texas U.)

Dec 1984 - 3 pages

Abstract (Elsevier)
It is shown that the non-manifestly supersymmetric piece of the covariant superstring action of Green and Schwarz is the Wess-Zumino term associated with mappings of two-dimensional spacetime SUSY( N = 2)/SO(9,1).


Keyword(s): INSPIRE: MODEL: STRING | FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: SIGMA | FIELD THEORY: TWO-DIMENSIONAL | FIELD THEORY: TEN-DIMENSIONAL | SUPERSYMMETRY | SYMMETRY: SO(9,1)
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