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A Note on Consistent Anomalies

L. Baulieu, C. Laroche, N. Ohta, M. Picco

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9707256

Abstract

Within a BRST formulation, we determine the expressions of the consistent anomaly for superstrings with extended worldsheet supersymmetries of rank N. We consider the O(N) superconformal algebras up to N=4, as well as the `small N=4' superalgebra. This is done using a superfield formalism, allowing to recover previous results that were expressed in components. Moreover, we identify the `small N=4' algebra as the constrained `large N=4' via a self-duality like condition in superspace.

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