Abstract

We discuss the relation between world-sheet symmetries of general four-dimensional superstring theories and the classification of their massless and massive excitations. This follows from the connection between extended superconformal algebras on the world-sheet and extended space-time supersymmetry algebras. In particular we show that the relevant Kac-Moody symmetries are extended to the spectrum symmetries of the supermultiplets of states. This analysis reproduces results for the field theory limit of superstring compactifications.

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