Quantum theory of dual relativistic parastring models

Abstract
We paraquantize the classical massless relativistic-string action and find that the resulting theory is Poincaré-invariant in four space-time dimensions if we use para-Bose commutation relations of order 12. More generally, we find that if the dimension D of the space-time and the order q of parabosons are related by the expression D=2+24q, then the quantized theory is Poincaré-invariant. We also construct a fermionic parastring model which is the analog of the Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz model and find that it is invariant in D dimensions if D=2+8q, both the fermions and the bosons being of order q. We show by explicit Klein transformations that these theories are equivalent to "color"-endowed canonically quantized strings with SO(q1) "color" symmetry. We obtain dual tree amplitudes by suitable choice of vertices. Finally, we consider second-quantized parastring theories and show, by an explicit example, that they can be Poincaré-invariant in four space-time dimensions.