Pure spinors, twistors, and emergent supersymmetry

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2012)006MaRDI QIDQ1796166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan J. Berkovits

Publication date 16 October 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1147

zbMATH Keywords

BRST symmetrysuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Starting with a classical action whose matter variables are a d=10 spacetime vector $x^m$ and a pure spinor $lambd{a}^{a}lpha$, the pure spinor formalism for the superstring is obtained by gauge-fixing the twistor-like constraint $partial{x}^m(gamm{a}_{m}lambda{)}_{a}lpha=0$. The fermionic variables $het{a}^{a}lpha$ are Faddeev-Popov ghosts coming from this gauge-fixing and replace the usual (b,c) ghosts coming from gauge-fixing the Virasoro constraint. After twisting the ghost-number such that $het{a}^{a}lpha$ has ghost-number zero and $lambd{a}^{a}lpha$ has ghost-number one, the BRST cohomology describes the usual spacetime supersymmetric states of the superstring.

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