TY - JOUR
T1 - A unifying topological action for heterotic and type II superstring theories
AU - Baulieu, Laurent
AU - Green, Michael B.
AU - Rabinovici, Eliezer
PY - 1996/10/3
Y1 - 1996/10/3
N2 - The heterotic and type II superstring actions are identified in different anomaly-free decompositions of a single topological sigma-model action depending on bosonic and fermionic coordinates, Xμ and ρAA respectively, and of their topological ghosts. This model results from gauge-fixing the topological gauge symmetry δXμ = εμ (z, z̄) (μ = 1, 2, . . . , 10) and δμα = εα (z, z̄) (α = 1, 2, . . . , 16). From another viewpoint the heterotic and type H superstring actions emerge as two different gauge-fixings of the same closed two-form. Comments are also made concerning the possibility of relating ρα to a Majorana-Weyl space-time spinor superpartner of Xμ.
AB - The heterotic and type II superstring actions are identified in different anomaly-free decompositions of a single topological sigma-model action depending on bosonic and fermionic coordinates, Xμ and ρAA respectively, and of their topological ghosts. This model results from gauge-fixing the topological gauge symmetry δXμ = εμ (z, z̄) (μ = 1, 2, . . . , 10) and δμα = εα (z, z̄) (α = 1, 2, . . . , 16). From another viewpoint the heterotic and type H superstring actions emerge as two different gauge-fixings of the same closed two-form. Comments are also made concerning the possibility of relating ρα to a Majorana-Weyl space-time spinor superpartner of Xμ.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00909-4
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00909-4
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AN - SCOPUS:0042125080
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 386
SP - 91
EP - 98
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1-4
ER -