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I've tried searching, but without much luck. Can someone please explain what it means for a state to be BPS saturated? It's in relation to a superalgebra [tex]\{ Q_{a},Q_{\dot{a}} \} = W \delta_{a\dot{a}}[/tex] and then the mass of a particle satisfying [tex]M \geq \frac{c_{1}}{\lambda}|W|[/tex] where lambda is the string coupling constant [tex]\lambda = e^{\phi}[/tex].
Any search I do for 'BPS states' comes out with some way over my head stuff.
I think it just means equality in the [tex]\geq[/tex] sign, but I want to be sure :)
Any search I do for 'BPS states' comes out with some way over my head stuff.
I think it just means equality in the [tex]\geq[/tex] sign, but I want to be sure :)