On the BRST cohomology of superstrings with/without pure spinors

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2003.v7.n3.a5zbMath1053.81039arXivhep-th/0206216OpenAlexW2027940476MaRDI QIDQ1431511

Giuseppe Policastro, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Pietro Antonio Grassi

Publication date: 10 June 2004

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0206216

zbMATH Keywords

equivariant cohomologyvertex operatorsKac-Moody superalgebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25)

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