Hybrid Superstrings in NS-NS Plane Waves
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By using the hybrid formalism, superstrings in four-dimensional NS-NS plane waves are studied in a manifest supersymmetric manner. This description of the superstring is obtained by a field redefinition of the RNS worldsheet fields and defined as a topological N = 4 string theory. The Hilbert space consists of two types of representations describing short and long strings. We study the physical spectrum to find boson-fermion asymmetry in the massless spectrum of the short string. Some massive spectrum of the short string and the massless spectrum of the long string are also studied. 1 typeset using PTPTEX.cls 〈Ver.0.89〉
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