(NON)TRIVIALITY OF PURE SPINORS AND EXACT PURE SPINOR–RNS MAP

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09043250zbMATH Open1167.81405arXiv0810.4696OpenAlexW3103679462MaRDI QIDQ3393348FDOQ3393348

Authors: Dimitri Polyakov 

Publication date: 20 August 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: All the BRST-invariant operators in pure spinor formalism in $d=10$ can be represented as BRST commutators, such as $V=lbrace{Q}_{brst},het{a}_{+}overlambd{a}_{+}Vbrace$ where $lambd{a}_{+}$ is the U(5) component of the pure spinor transforming as $1_{5over2}$. Therefore, in order to secure non-triviality of BRST cohomology in pure spinor string theory, one has to introduce "small Hilbert space" and "small operator algebra" for pure spinors, analogous to those existing in RNS formalism. As any invariant vertex operator in RNS string theory can also represented as a commutator $V=lbrace{Q}_{brst},LVbrace$ where $L=-4cpartialxixi{e}^{-2phi}$, we show that mapping $het{a}_{+}overlambd{a}_{+}$ to L leads to identification of the pure spinor variable $lambd{a}^{alpha}$ in terms of RNS variables without any additional non-minimal fields. We construct the RNS operator satisfying all the properties of $lambd{a}^{a}lpha$ and show that the pure spinor BRST operator $ointlambd{a}^{a}lpha{d}_{a}lpha$ is mapped (up to similarity transformation) to the BRST operator of RNS theory under such a construction. We also observe that BRST cohomology of pure spinor superstring theory contains vertex operators non-trivially coupled to the pure spinor ghost variable. The physical interpretation of these operators remains unclear.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4696

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zbMATH Keywords

pure spinorsghost cohomologies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• GHOST COHOMOLOGIES AND HIDDEN SPACE–TIME SYMMETRIES
• NEW SUPERSTRING ISOMETRIES AND HIDDEN DIMENSIONS

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