A Hierarchy of Superstrings

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.73.1199MaRDI QIDQ4492197zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Nobuyoshi Ohta, Jens Lyng Petersen

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9403150

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We construct a hierarchy of supersymmetric string theories by showing that the general N-extended superstrings may be viewed as a special class of the (N+1)-extended superstrings. As a side result, we find a twisted (N+2) superconformal algebra realized in the N-extended string.

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• The superembedding origin of the Berkovits pure spinor covariant quantization of superstrings
• Gauging of nonlinearly realized symmetries

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