CLOSED N=2 STRINGS: PICTURE-CHANGING, HIDDEN SYMMETRIES AND SDG HIERARCHY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00001865zbMATH Open0985.81109arXivhep-th/9912154MaRDI QIDQ4523552FDOQ4523552

Authors: Alexander D. Popov, Olaf Lechtenfeld 

Publication date: 14 January 2001

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

Abstract: We study the action of picture-changing and spectral flow operators on a ground ring of ghost number zero operators in the chiral BRST cohomology of the closed N=2 string and describe an infinite set of symmetry charges acting on physical states. The transformations of physical string states are compared with symmetries of self-dual gravity which is the effective field theory of the closed N=2 string. We derive all infinitesimal symmetries of the self-dual gravity equations in 2+2 dimensional spacetime and introduce an infinite hierarchy of commuting flows on the moduli space of self-dual metrics. The dependence on moduli parameters can be recovered by solving the equations of the SDG hierarchy associated with an infinite set of abelian symmetries generated recursively from translations. These non-local abelian symmetries are shown to coincide with the hidden abelian string symmetries responsible for the vanishing of most scattering amplitudes. Therefore, N=2 string theory "predicts" not only self-dual gravity but also the SDG hierarchy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9912154

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceBRST cohomologyself-dual gravityhierarchy of commuting flows\((2+2)\)-dimensional space-time\(N= 2\) stringghost number zero operatorsnonlocal Abelian symmetriespicture-changing and spectral flow operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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