Why Are There So Many N = 4 Superstrings?

Abstract

We demonstrate the existence of three off-shell distinct N = 4 superstrings at the level of manifest locally supersymmetric Lagrangian field theories on the world sheet.

13 pages, e-mail: [email protected]

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