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pp‐wave string models with interacting light‐cone actions
Author(s) -
Tseytlin A.A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/prop.200310110
Subject(s) - superstring theory , physics , green–schwarz mechanism , string (physics) , light cone gauge , holomorphic function , fermion , mathematical physics , gauge (firearms) , boson , action (physics) , light cone , theoretical physics , wave function , type (biology) , heterotic string theory , gauge theory , supersymmetry , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , mathematics , ecology , archaeology , quantum gravity , biology , relationship between string theory and quantum field theory , quantum , history
We consider pp‐wave backgrounds for which superstring action written in light‐cone gauge have the form of an interacting 2‐d theory. All pp‐wave solutions supported by non‐constant H 3 or F p fields are exact type II superstring solutions to all orders in α′. The corresponding light‐cone gauge Green‐Schwarz actions are non‐linear in bosons but always quadratic in fermions, and describe UV finite (but, in general, non‐supersymmetric) 2‐d theories. We consider a specific example where the pp‐wave F 3 background is parametrized by an arbitrary holomorphic function of one complex bosonic coordinate.