N=4 string is the same as theN=2 string

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.69.1493MaRDI QIDQ4492011zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Warren Siegel

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/9204005

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We redo the quantization of the N=4 string, taking into account the reducibility of the constraints. The result is equivalent to the N=2 string, with critical dimension D=4 and signature (++--). The N=4 formulation has several advantages: the sigma-model field equations are implied classically, rather than by quantum/beta-function calculations; self-duality/chirality is one of the super-Virasoro constraints; SO(2,2) covariance is manifest. This reveals that the theory includes fermions, and is apparently spacetime supersymmetric.

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