Deformations of superconformal field theories and target-space symmetries

Journal Article · Wed Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.550· OSTI ID:7277909

Ovrut, B A; Rama, S K ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396 (United States)

We give a method of deforming the conformal field theories of the bosonic and fermionic string corresponding to turning on the target-space background fields and describe a procedure for obtaining the transformations of the background fields under a target-space symmetry group. After illustrating these methods with examples, we apply them to the case of the chiral superfields which arise when the six internal dimensions of the fermionic string are compactified into a {ital Z}{sub 3} orbifold and obtain the {ital N}=1 supersymmetry transformations of the chiral superfields.

• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76ER03071
• OSTI ID: 7277909
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 45:2; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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