A Locally Supersymmetric Action for the Bosonic String

Abstract

Recently Berkovits and Vafa have shown that the bosonic string can be viewed as the fermionic string propagating in a particular background. Such a background is described by a somewhat unusual $N=1$ superconformal system. By coupling it to $N=1$ supergravity I construct a local supersymmetric action for the bosonic string.

7 pages, NBI-93-69

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