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The Galilean superstring

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Authors

Gomis, J 
Townsend, PK 

Abstract

The action for a Galilean superstring is found from a non-relativistic limit of the closed Green-Schwarz (GS) superstring; it has zero tension and provides an example of a massless super-Galilean system. A Wess-Zumino term leads to a topological central charge in the Galilean supersymmetry algebra, such that unitarity requires a upper bound on the total momentum. This Galilean-invariant bound, which is also implied by the classical phase-space constraints, is saturated by solutions of the superstring equations of motion that half-preserve supersymmetry. We discuss briefly the extension to the Galilean supermembrane.

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Keywords

global symmetries, superspaces, superstrings and heterotic strings, p-branes

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1126-6708
1029-8479

Volume Title

2017

Publisher

Springer
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000385/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000636/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000673/1)
The material in it is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foun- dation under Grant Number PHY-1620610 and with support from The Robert A. Welch Foundation, Grant No. F-0014. J.G also has been supported by FPA2013-46570-C2-1-P, 2014-SGR-104 (Generalitat de Catalunya) and Consolider CPAN and by the Spanish gover- ment (MINECO/FEDER) under project MDM-2014-0369 of ICCUB (Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu). PKT acknowledges support from the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (grant ST/L000385/1).