Path-Integral Quantization of the (2,2) String

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97002632MaRDI QIDQ4211978zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jan Bischoff, Olaf Lechtenfeld

Publication date 18 October 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612218

zbMATH Keywords

BRST cohomologychiral bosonizationgauge instanton numbergauge modulipath integralspectral flowsuperconformal gauge fixingsupermoduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: A complete treatment of the (2,2) NSR string in flat (2+2) dimensional space-time is given, from the formal path integral over N=2 super Riemann surfaces to the computational recipe for amplitudes at any loop or gauge instanton number. We perform in detail the superconformal gauge fixing, discuss the spectral flow, and analyze the supermoduli space with emphasis on the gauge moduli. Background gauge field configurations in all instanton sectors are constructed. We develop chiral bosonization on punctured higher-genus surfaces in the presence of gauge moduli and instantons. The BRST cohomology is recapitulated, with a new space-time interpretation for picture-changing. We point out two ways of combining left- and right-movers, which lead to different three-point functions.

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Cited in

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• Self-dual supergravity from \(N=2\) strings
• Extended self-dual Yang-Mills from the N=2 string
• Little string theory and heterotic/type II duality
• An approach to F-theory.
• String-induced Yang-Mills coupling to self-dual gravity
• Path-integral formulation of the Dirichlet string in general backgrounds
• \(A_\infty\)-algebra from supermanifolds
• Hidden symmetries of the open N=2 string
• WORLDSHEET COVARIANT PATH INTEGRAL QUANTIZATION OF STRINGS
• CLOSED N=2 STRINGS: PICTURE-CHANGING, HIDDEN SYMMETRIES AND SDG HIERARCHY
• Quantum folded string and integrability: from finite size effects to Konishi dimension
• Path integrals evaluation in two-dimensional de Sitter space
• Integration measure and spectral flow in the critical \(N=2\) string
• N=2 quantum string scattering
• Open N=2 strings in a B-field background and noncommutative self-dual Yang-Mills
• A heterotic N=2 string with space-time supersymmetry
• \(A_\infty\) action of open \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) superstring field theory
• The ground ring of \(N=2\) minimal string theory

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