TY - JOUR
T1 - Superspace supergravity from the superstring
AU - Shapiro, Joel A.
AU - Taylor, Cyrus C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF-PHY84-15534. We would like to thank E. Witten and L. Mezincescu for valuable conversations.
PY - 1987/2/26
Y1 - 1987/2/26
N2 - We study a classical superstring propagating in a "curved" (10,16)-dimensional superspace. In this formulation of the string, a local fermionic symmetry is needed to eliminate ghosts from the particle spectrum. By studying the constraint algebra, we show that any background field configuration consistent with this symmetry is equivalent to one which satisfies the full set of supergravity equations.
AB - We study a classical superstring propagating in a "curved" (10,16)-dimensional superspace. In this formulation of the string, a local fermionic symmetry is needed to eliminate ghosts from the particle spectrum. By studying the constraint algebra, we show that any background field configuration consistent with this symmetry is equivalent to one which satisfies the full set of supergravity equations.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90514-4
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90514-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0010857451
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 186
SP - 69
EP - 72
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1
ER -