CONFORMAL MODULI AND b-c PICTURES FOR NSR STRINGS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X05024274MaRDI QIDQ5692892zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dimitri Polyakov

Publication date 28 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0401009

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We explore the geometry of the superconformal moduli of the NSR superstring theory in order to construct the consistent sigma-model for the NSR strings, free of picture-changing ambiguities. The sigma-model generating functional is constructed by the integration over the bosonic and anticommuting moduli, corresponding to insertions of the vertex operators in scattering amplitudes. In particular, the integration over the bosonic moduli results in the appearance of picture-changing operators for the b-c system. Important example of the b-c pictures involves the unintegrated and integrated forms of the vertex operators. We derive the BRST-invariant expressions for the b-c picture-changing operators for open and closed strings and study some of their properties. We also show that the superconformal moduli spaces of the NSR superstring theory contain the global singularities, leading to the appearance of non-perturbative solitonic D-brane creation operators.

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