World-sheet gauge fields in superstrings

M. Porrati, E. T. Tomboulis

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    Abstract

    We investigate the introduction of world-sheet 2-dimensional gauge fields in a manner consistent with world-sheet supersymmetry. We obtain the effective string action resulting from the exact integration over the world-sheet gauge fields to show that it generally describes string models with spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries with continuous breaking parameters. We examine the question of spacetime supersymmetry spontaneous breaking, and show that breaking with continuous, in particular arbitrarily small breaking parameters does not occur; only breaking for discrete values of parameters is possible.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)615-637
    Number of pages23
    JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
    Volume315
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Mar 27 1989

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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