COVARIANT QUANTIZATION OF THE SUPERSTRING

DOI10.1142/S0217751X01003913zbMath0988.81111arXivhep-th/0008145OpenAlexW2118075642MaRDI QIDQ2735269

Nathan Berkovits

Publication date: 22 July 2002

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008145

zbMATH Keywords

supergravity backgroundfermionic constraintsBRST operatorGreen-Schwarz superstring\(N\)-point tree amplitudesbosonic pure spinor ghostten-dimensional super-Poincaré covariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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Cites Work

• Type IIB superstring action in \(\text{AdS}_5\times S^5\) background
• Covariant quantization of the Green-Schwarz superstring in a Calabi-Yau background
• \(N=4\) topological strings
• \(\text{PSL}(n|n)\) sigma model as a conformal field theory
• Superspace effective actions for 4D compactifications of heterotic and type II superstrings
• Pure spinors as auxiliary fields in the ten-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
• Super-Poincaré covariant quantization of the superstring

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