• DOI:10.1143/PTP.110.137
• Corpus ID: 16083313

Hybrid Superstrings in NS-NS Plane Waves

@article{Kunitomo2003HybridSI,
  title={Hybrid Superstrings in NS-NS Plane Waves},
  author={Hiroshi Kunitomo},
  journal={Progress of Theoretical Physics},
  year={2003},
  volume={110},
  pages={137-157}
}

• H. Kunitomo
• Published 6 March 2003
• Physics
• Progress of Theoretical Physics

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 through 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 spectra of the short string and the massless spectrum of the long string are also studied.