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Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2891–2892 (1996)

Off-Shell Supersymmetry versus Hermiticity in Superstrings

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Nathan Berkovits
Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, São Paulo, SP 01405-900, Brazil

Received 3 June 1996; published in the issue dated 30 September 1996

We point out that off-shell four-dimensional spacetime supersymmetry implies strange Hermiticity properties for the N = 1 Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz superstring. However, these Hermiticity properties become natural when the N = 1 superstring is embedded into an N = 2 superstring.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2891
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2891
PACS:
11.25.Db