NEW SUPERSTRING ISOMETRIES AND HIDDEN DIMENSIONS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X07037299MaRDI QIDQ3500367zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dimitri Polyakov

Publication date 3 June 2008

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0275

zbMATH Keywords

\(\alpha\)-symmetriessupergravitysuperstrings

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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: We explore the hierarchy of hidden space-time symmetries of noncritical strings in RNS formalism, realized nonlinearly. Under these symmetry transformations the variation of the matter part of the RNS action is cancelled by that of the ghost part. These symmetries, referred to as the $alpha$-symmetries, are induced by special space-time generators, violating the equivalence of ghost pictures. We classify the $alpha$-symmetry generators in terms of superconformal ghost cohomologies $H_{n}sim{H}_{-n-2}(ngeq0)$ and associate these generators with a chain of hidden space-time dimensions, with each ghost cohomology $H_{n}sim{H}_{-n-2}$ ``contributing an extra dimension. Namely, we show that each ghost cohomology $H_{n}sim{H}_{-n-2}$ of non-critical superstring theory in $d$-dimensions contains $d+n+1$ $alpha$-symmetry generators and the generators from $H_{k}sim{H}_{-k-2},1leqkleqn$, combined together, extend the space-time isometry group from the naive $SO(d,2)$ to $SO(d+n,2)$. In the simplest case of $n=1$ the $alpha$-generators are identified with the extra symmetries of the $2T$-physics formalism, also known to originate from a hidden space-time dimension.

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