Covariant field theory for self-dual strings

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00397-0zbMATH Open0925.81258arXivhep-th/9703154OpenAlexW3103382874MaRDI QIDQ1371580FDOQ1371580

Authors: Nathan J. Berkovits, Warren Siegel 

Publication date: 29 October 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a gauge and manifestly SO(2,2) covariant formulation of the field theory of the self-dual string. The string fields are gauge connections that turn the super-Virasoro generators into covariant derivatives.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703154

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge connectionsstring fieldssuperVirasoro generatorsYang Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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