A unifying topological action for heterotic and type II superstring theories

Laurent Baulieu; Michael B. Green; Eliezer Rabinovici

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00909-4

A unifying topological action for heterotic and type II superstring theories

Laurent Baulieu^*
, Michael B. Green
, Eliezer Rabinovici

^*Corresponding author for this work

Racah Institute of Physics

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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, X^μ and ρ^AA respectively, and of their topological ghosts. This model results from gauge-fixing the topological gauge symmetry δX^μ = ε^μ (z, z̄) (μ = 1, 2, . . . , 10) and δμ^α = ε^α (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 ρ^α to a Majorana-Weyl space-time spinor superpartner of X^μ.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	91-98
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	386
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(96)00909-4
State	Published - 3 Oct 1996

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