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arxiv: 1610.03251 · v1 · pith:AN3W2SCPnew · submitted 2016-10-11 · ✦ hep-th

Supersymmetry in Open Superstring Field Theory

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords supersymmetryactionopensymmetryfieldsuperstringtheorytransformation
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We realize the 16 unbroken supersymmetries on a BPS D-brane as invariances of the action of the corresponding open superstring field theory. We work in the small Hilbert space approach, where a symmetry of the action translates into a symmetry of the associated cyclic $A_\infty$ structure. We compute the supersymmetry algebra, being careful to disentangle the components which produce a translation, a gauge transformation, and a symmetry transformation which vanishes on-shell. Via the minimal model theorem, we illustrate how supersymmetry of the action implies supersymmetry of the tree level open string scattering amplitudes.

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