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Supersheet functional integration and the interacting Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond string

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:5827736
By extending the string world-sheet to a supersheet, the functional integration formalism of Mandelstam for the Neveu-Schwarz string is simplified considerably. After proving this new supersheet formalism to be equivalent to the old formalism of Mandelstam, the tree-level scattering amplitudes for excited Neveu-Schwarz strings are calculated in the light-cone gauge. The volume element is evaluated using methods that will be useful in any future multiloop amplitude calculations.
Research Organization:
California Univ., Berkeley, CA (USA)
OSTI ID:
5827736
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English