Covariant quantization of the superstring

DOI10.1142/S0217751X01003913MaRDI QIDQ2735269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan J. 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

\(N\)-point tree amplitudesbosonic pure spinor ghostBRST operatorfermionic constraintsGreen-Schwarz superstringsupergravity backgroundten-dimensional super-Poincaré covariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: After reviewing the Green-Schwarz superstring using the approach of Siegel, the superstring is covariantly quantized by constructing a BRST operator from the fermionic constraints and a bosonic pure spinor ghost variable. Physical massless vertex operators are constructed and, for the first time, N-point tree amplitudes are computed in a manifestly ten-dimensional super-Poincar'e covariant manner. Quantization can be generalized to curved supergravity backgrounds and the vertex operator for fluctuations around $Ad{S}_{5}imes{S}^5$ is explicitly constructed. This review is written in a self-contained manner and is based on talks given at the Fradkin Memorial Conference and Strings 2000.

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