On type II superstrings; The. sigma. model and compactification to D = 4

Journal Article · Fri Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · International Journal of Modern Physics A; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X91001969· OSTI ID:5548901

Castellani, L ^[1]; D'Auria, R; Franco, D ^[2]

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1. Inst. Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino (IT)
2. Dept. di Fisica, Univ. di Padova and Inst. Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova (IT)

This paper presents a geometric construction of the {sigma} model describing type II superstrings propagating on an arbitrary M{sub target}. Specializing the covering space of the internal target manifold to be the nine-dimensional group manifold SU(2){sup 3}, the authors discuss the massless vertices both in the (4 + 9)-dimensional {sigma} model and in the D = 4 superconformal theory, and show how they are related via dimensional reduction.

• OSTI ID: 5548901
• Journal Information: International Journal of Modern Physics A; (United States), Vol. 6:22; ISSN 0217-751X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
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