Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Photographs of contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Part I Overview
- EARLY STRING THEORY
- Part II The prehistory: the analytic S-matrix
- Part III The Dual Resonance Model
- Part IV The string
- TOWARDS MODERN STRING THEORY
- Part V Beyond the bosonic string
- Part VI The superstring
- 35 Introduction to Part VI
- 36 Supersymmetry in string theory
- 37 Gravity from strings: personal reminiscences of early developments
- 38 From the Nambu–Goto to the σ-model action
- 39 Locally supersymmetric action for the superstring
- 40 Personal recollections
- 41 The scientific contributions of Joël Scherk
- Part VII Preparing the string renaissance
- Appendix A Theoretical tools of the Sixties
- Appendix B The Veneziano amplitude
- Appendix C From the string action to the Dual Resonance Model
- Appendix D World-sheet and target-space supersymmetry
- Appendix E The field theory limit
- Index
39 - Locally supersymmetric action for the superstring
from Part VI - The superstring
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Photographs of contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Part I Overview
- EARLY STRING THEORY
- Part II The prehistory: the analytic S-matrix
- Part III The Dual Resonance Model
- Part IV The string
- TOWARDS MODERN STRING THEORY
- Part V Beyond the bosonic string
- Part VI The superstring
- 35 Introduction to Part VI
- 36 Supersymmetry in string theory
- 37 Gravity from strings: personal reminiscences of early developments
- 38 From the Nambu–Goto to the σ-model action
- 39 Locally supersymmetric action for the superstring
- 40 Personal recollections
- 41 The scientific contributions of Joël Scherk
- Part VII Preparing the string renaissance
- Appendix A Theoretical tools of the Sixties
- Appendix B The Veneziano amplitude
- Appendix C From the string action to the Dual Resonance Model
- Appendix D World-sheet and target-space supersymmetry
- Appendix E The field theory limit
- Index
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- The Birth of String Theory , pp. 484 - 489Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012