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41/2000

Actions and symmetries of NSR superstrings and D-strings

Friedemann Brandt, Alexander Kling and Maximilian Kreuzer

Abstract

We present all NSR superstring and super-D-string actions invariant under a set of prescribed gauge transformations, and characterize completely their global symmetries. In particular we obtain locally supersymmetric Born-Infeld actions on general backgrounds in a formulation with extra target space dimensions. The nontrivial global symmetries of the superstring actions correspond to isometries of the background, whereas super-D-string actions can have additional symmetries acting nontrivially also on the coordinates of the extra dimensions.

Received:
Jul 6, 2000
Published:
Jul 6, 2000
PACS:
11.25.-w, 11.30.-j

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2000 Repository Open Access
Friedemann Brandt, Alexander Kling and Maximilian Kreuzer

Actions and symmetries of NSR superstrings and D-strings

In: Physics Letters / B, 494 (2000) 1-2, pp. 155-160