Off-shell Supersymmetry versus Hermiticity in the Superstring

Abstract

We point out that off-shell four-dimensional supersymmetry implies strange hermiticity properties for the N=1 RNS superstring. However, these hermiticity properties become natural when the N=1 superstring is embedded into an N=2 superstring.

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