Tree scattering amplitudes of the spin 4/3 fractional superstring. 2. The Twisted sectors
Nov 30, 199328 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 5349-5363
e-Print:
- hep-th/9311131 [hep-th]
Report number:
- IASSNS-HEP-93-58,
- CLNS-93-1251
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Abstract: (desy)
The spin-4/3 fractional superstring is characterized by a world-sheet chiral algebra involving spin-4/3 currents. The discussion of the tree-level scattering amplitudes of this theory presented in hepth/9310131 is expanded to include amplitudes containing two twisted-sector states. These amplitudes are shown to satisfy spurious state decoupling. The restriction to only two external twisted-sector states is due to the absence of an appropriate dimension-one vertex describing the emission of a single twisted-sector state. This is analogous to the ``old covariant'' formalism of ordinary superstring amplitudes in which an appropriate dimension-one vertex for the emission of a Ramond-sector state is lacking. Examples of tree scattering amplitudes are calculated in a c=5 model of the spin-4/3 chiral algebra realized in terms of free bosons on the string world-sheet. The target space of this model is three-dimensional flat Minkowski space-time and the twisted-sector physical states are fermions in space-time. Since the critical central charge of the spin-4/3 fractional superstring theory is 10, this c=5 model is not consistent at the string loop level.- string model: fractional
- supersymmetry
- scattering amplitude
- boundary condition
- operator product expansion
- operator: algebra
- phase space
- spin: 4/3
- 4/3: spin
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