A Heterotic N=2 string with space-time supersymmetry

Mar, 2001
17 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 609 (2001) 410-428
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Report number:
  • LNF-01-010-P,
  • ITP-UH-02-01

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Abstract:
We reconsider the issue of embedding space-time fermions into the four-dimensional N=2 world-sheet supersymmetric string. A new heterotic theory is constructed, taking the right-movers from the N=4 topological extension of the conventional N=2 string but a c=0 conformal field theory supporting target-space supersymmetry for the left-moving sector. The global bosonic symmetry of the full formalism proves to be U(1,1), just as in the usual N=2 string. Quantization reveals a spectrum of only two physical states, one boson and one fermion, which fall in a multiplet of (1,0) supersymmetry.
Note:
  • 1+18 pages LaTeX, v2: minor corrections, v3: abstract now ok, published version Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys. B609 (2001) 410-428
  • string model: heterotic
  • supersymmetry: space-time
  • supersymmetry: representation
  • particle: multiplet
  • symmetry: U(1,1)
  • quantization