A Complete Action for the Spinning String

Sep, 1976
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 65 (1976) 369-373
  • Published: 1976
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-2236

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present an action for the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond model from which follow both the field equations and the gauge and supergauge constraints. This is done by coupling the free-field action to two-dimensional supergravity in a geometrically clear way. The constraints arise as the supergravity field equations, the supergravity fields playing the role of Lagrange multipliers. The action is invariant under local supersymmetry transformations and, as a consequence, the field equations and the constraints are consistent. The commutator structure of the local supersymmetry algebra is exhibited. It is also shown that there exists a special gauge in which the action, the field equations and the constraints take the free-field from of the usual formulation of the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond model.
  • string model
  • supersymmetry: transformation
  • field theory: action
  • supergravity
  • dimension: 2
  • field theory: constraint
  • field equations
  • boundary condition
  • ALGEBRA: SUPERSYMMETRY
  • commutation relations