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WZW-like action for heterotic string field theory

Nathan Berkovits1, Yuji Okawa2 and Barton Zwiebach2

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We complete the construction of the Neveu-Schwarz sector of heterotic string field theory begun in [9] by giving a closed-form expression for the action and gauge transformations. Just as the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) action for open superstring field theory can be constructed from pure-gauge fields in bosonic open string field theory, our heterotic string field theory action is constructed from pure-gauge fields in bosonic closed string field theory. The construction involves a simple alternative form of the WZW action which is consistent with the algebraic structures of closed string field theory.


Keywords

Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

String Field Theory

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0409018

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PACS

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

11.25.Sq Nonperturbative techniques; string field theory

11.15.-q Gauge field theories

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2004)

Received 13 September 2004, accepted for publication 15 November 2004

Published 13 December 2004



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