2003/03/31 by Gautam Trivedi
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Covariant transformation #Formalism (music) #Plane wave #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Realization (probability) #Superstring theory #Symmetry (geometry) #Type (biology) #Worldsheet #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732303011253
published in Modern Physics Letters A 18(19), 1317-1323 (World Scientific) · 9 pages, harvmac, Corrected some typographical errors, Added references
arxiv created 2003/04/07 · openalex publication_date 2003/06/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We calculate the symmetry currents for type IIB superstring on a maximally supersymmetric plane wave background using the N = (2,2) superconformally covariant U(4) formulation developed by Berkovits, Maldacena and Maoz. An explicit realization of the U(4) generators together with 16 fermionic generators is obtained in terms of the N = (2,2) worldsheet fields. As the action is no longer quadratic, we use a light-cone version to display the currents in terms of the covariant worldsheet variables.