A Critical String Theory in 3+1 Dimensions
| Autor: | Bhattacharyya, J. S., Bhattacharya, Gautam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Redefining the vacuum state of a free twofold N=1 covariant supersymmetric string action as the one with all the world sheet fermionic excited states occupied, makes the theory anomaly free in D=4 with Minkowski signature. The theory thus describes a critical string in 3+1 dimensions as opposed to earlier N=2 supersymmetric theories describing a 2+2 dimensional target space. While in the NS sector the spectrum basically resembles the same for the standard N=1 superstring theory with one of the $N$ species in the background, in the R sector both the species of fermions and superconformal ghosts are required to describe the relevant spin operators to describe the fermion spectra. A crucial difference from D=10 case is that the fermion states are Dirac particles instead of Majorana-Weyl. Even though the full spectrum of the theory contains both bosons and fermions of various spin, there is no space-time supersymmetry due to obvious lack of triality. Comment: Reference and notes added to previous version |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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