Gauge symmetries in (super)string field theory
- 15 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 36 (6) , 1794-1799
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.36.1794
Abstract
We study gauge symmetries of the cubic formulation of open-string field theory in light of the recently discovered associativity anomalies. It is shown that the gauge group includes arbitrary general coordinate transformations, in accord with the existence of closed-string configurations. In the case of the superstring, supersymmetry is shown to be a gauge symmetry.Keywords
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