Dynamical twisting and the b ghost in the pure spinor formalism

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2013)091zbMATH Open1342.81512arXiv1305.0693OpenAlexW3106236927MaRDI QIDQ303389FDOQ303389

Nathan J. Berkovits

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: After adding an RNS-like fermionic vector psi^m to the pure spinor formalism, the non-minimal b ghost takes a simple form similar to the pure spinor BRST operator. The N=2 superconformal field theory generated by the b ghost and the BRST current can be interpreted as a "dynamical twisting" of the RNS formalism where the choice of which spin half psi^m variables are twisted into spin 0 and spin 1 variables is determined by the pure spinor variables that parameterize the coset SO(10)/U(5).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0693

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zbMATH Keywords

superstrings and heterotic stringstopological strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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