Gravitational and Axionic Backgrounds for Four-dimensional Superstrings
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چکیده
We construct new four-dimensional superstring vacua with extended superconformal symmetries. A non-trivial dilaton background implies the existence of Abelian killing symmetries. These are used to construct dual equivalent backgrounds in a way preserving the N = 2 superconformal invariance.
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