Two-loop superstrings in hyperelliptic language. I: The main results

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00310-1zbMATH Open1011.81058arXivhep-th/0212191OpenAlexW2021469349MaRDI QIDQ1867924FDOQ1867924

Authors: Zhujun Zheng, Jun-Bao Wu, Chuan-Jie Zhu 

Publication date: 2 April 2003

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Following the new gauging fixing method of D'Hoker and Phong, we study two-loop superstrings in hyperelliptic language. By using hyperelliptic representation of genus 2 Riemann surface we derive a set of identities involving the Szeg"o kernel. These identities are used to prove the vanishing of the cosmological constant and the non-renormalization theorem point-wise in moduli space by doing the summation over all the 10 even spin structures. Modular invariance is maintained at every stage of the computation explicitly. The 4-particle amplitude is also computed and an explicit expression for the chiral integrand is obtained. We use this result to show that the perturbative correction to the $R^4$ term in type II superstring theories is vanishing at two loops. In this paper, a summary of the main results is presented with detailed derivations to be provided in two subsequent publications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212191

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zbMATH Keywords

modular invarianceD'Hoker-Phong gauge fixing methodgenus 2 Riemann surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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