Light-cone gauge for N=2 strings

DOI10.1023/A:1021210016929zbMATH Open1063.81637arXivhep-th/0204073OpenAlexW1577506663MaRDI QIDQ1780077FDOQ1780077

Authors: Olaf Lechtenfeld, Warren Siegel 

Publication date: 7 June 2005

Published in: Russian Physics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Covariant quantization of self-dual strings in 2+2 flat dimensions reduces them to their zero modes, a consequence of extended world-sheet supersymmetry. We demonstrate how to arrive at the same result more directly by employing a `double' light-cone gauge. An unconventional feature of this gauge is the removal of anticommuting degrees of freedom by commuting symmetries and vice versa. The reducibility of the N=4 string and its equivalence with the N=2 string become apparent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204073

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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