Superstring in thepp-Wave Background with RR Flux as a Conformal Field Theory

DOI10.1143/PTPS.177.54MaRDI QIDQ3397122zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yoichi Kazama

Publication date 22 September 2009

Published in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4001

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)

Abstract: We provide a concise description of our recent work on the exact conformal field theory (CFT) formulation of the superstring in the pp-wave background with Ramond-Ramond (RR) flux, using the Green-Schwarz formalism in the semi-light-cone conformal gauge. Due to the presence of the RR flux, the left- and the right-moving degrees of freedom on the worldsheet are inherently coupled and this makes the canonical analysis intractable even at the classical level. To overcome this difficulty, we develop a phase-space formulation which does not make use of the equations of motion, and construct two independent sets of Virasoro generators classically. Upon quantization, due to the presence of the RR flux, the Virasoro algebra generically develops quantum operator anomalies and only with a judicious choice of normal ordering rescription they cancel between the bosonic and the fermionic contributions. With such properly defined quantum Virasoro generators, one can construct the BRST operators and demonstrate that the BRST cohomology analysis reproduces the physical spectrum previously obtained in the light-cone gauge.

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