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String Non(anti)commutativity for Neveu-Schwarz Boundary Conditions

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The appearance of non(anti)commutativity in superstring theory, satisfying the Neveu-Schwarz boundary conditions is discussed in this paper. Both an open free superstring and also one moving in a background antisymmetric tensor field are analyzed to illustrate the point that string non(anti)commutativity is a consequence of the nontrivial boundary conditions. The method used here is quite different from several other approaches where boundary conditions were treated as constraints. An interesting observation of this study is that, one requires that the bosonic sector satisfies Dirichlet boundary conditions at one end and Neumann at the other in the case of the bosonic variables X μ being antiperiodic. The non(anti)commutative structures derived in this paper also leads to the closure of the super constraint algebra which is essential for the internal consistency of our analysis.

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  1. S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700098, India

    Chandrasekhar Chatterjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay & Saurav Samanta

  2. Department of Mathematics, Sundarban Mahavidyalaya Kakdwip, South 24 Parganas, West-Bengal, India

    Arindam Ghosh Hazra

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Chatterjee, C., Gangopadhyay, S., Hazra, A.G. et al. String Non(anti)commutativity for Neveu-Schwarz Boundary Conditions. Int J Theor Phys 47, 2372–2381 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-008-9671-8

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