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From Superspaghetti to Superravioli

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The Superworld II

Part of the book series: The Subnuclear Series ((SUS,volume 25))

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There are four fundamental extended objects with d > 2 world-volume dimensions and D-dimensional space-time supersymmetry: (d=3,D=11), (d=6, D=10), (d=4,D=6) and (d=3,D=4). A simultaneous dimensional reduction of the world-volume and the space-time then yields four sequences of super extended objects which include the four classical Green-Schwarz super-strings (d=2,D=10,6,4 and 3) as special cases. We discuss which of these models is likely to be quantum consistent and finish with some speculations.

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    M. J. Duff

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Duff, M.J. (1990). From Superspaghetti to Superravioli. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) The Superworld II. The Subnuclear Series, vol 25. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7467-1_3

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