On the BRST cohomology of superstrings with/without pure spinors

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2003.v7.n3.a5zbMath1053.81039arXivhep-th/0206216MaRDI 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 cohomology; vertex operators; Kac-Moody superalgebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

17B69: Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

81R25: Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory

55N91: Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology

14F43: Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies)

14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

55N25: Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology

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