Randomizing the Superstring

Abstract

We find a simpler formulation of the Green-Schwarz action, for which the Wess-Zumino term is the square of supersymmetric currents, like the rest of the action. On a random lattice it gives Feynman diagrams of a particle superfield theory.

15 pg., (uuencoded compressed postscript file; revision: fixed notational ambiguity---too many phi's) ITP-SB-94-08

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