COVARIANT FIELD-THEORY FOR SELF-DUAL STRINGS

Authors
BERKOVITS N SIEGEL W
Citation
N. Berkovits et W. Siegel, COVARIANT FIELD-THEORY FOR SELF-DUAL STRINGS, Nuclear physics. B, 505(1-2), 1997, pp. 139-152
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
505
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
139 - 152
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1997)505:1-2<139:CFFSS>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We give a gauge and manifestly SO(2,2) covariant formulation of the fi eld theory of the self-dual string. The string fields are gauge connec tions that turn the super-Virasoro generators into covariant derivativ es. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.