Duality of the superstring in superspace

DOI10.1142/S0217732394001180MaRDI QIDQ2727942zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ashok Das, J. Maharana

Publication date 31 July 2001

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9401147

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

Abstract: The evolution of a closed NSR string is considered in the background of constant graviton and antisymmetric fields. The $sigma$-model action is written in a manifestly supersymmetric form in terms of superfields. The first order formalism adopted for the closed bosonic string is generalised to implement duality transformations and the constant dual backgrounds are obtained for the dual theory. We recover the $Gightarrow{G}^{-1}$ duality for the case when antisymmetric tensor field is set to zero. Next, the case when the backgrounds depend on one superfield, is also analysed. This scenario is similar to the cosmological case envisaged for the bosonic string. The explicit form of the duality transformation is given for this case.

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• T-duality of nsr superstring: the worldsheet perspective
• The worldsheet perspective of t-duality symmetry in string theory
• T-duality and scattering of stringy states

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