The N=2 open string

Details The N=2 open string The N=2 open string

1992-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9207024v1

Nucl.Phys.B387:263-279,1992

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

17 Pages (LaTeX)

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(92)90161-4

We show that the N=2 open string describes a theory of self-dual Yang Mills (SDYM) in (2,2) dimensions. The coupling to the closed sector is described by SDYM in a Kahler background, with the Yang-Mills fields providing a source term to the self-duality equation in the gravity sector. The four-point S-matrix elements of the theory vanish, so the tree-level unitarity constraints leading to the Chan-Paton construction are relaxed. By considering more general group-theory ansatze the N=2 string can be written for any gauge group, and not just the classical groups allowed for the bosonic and N=1 strings. Such ad hoc group-theory factors can not be appended to the closed N=2 string, explaining why the Z_n closed N=2 strings are trivial extensions of the Z_1 theory.

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