New BRST charges in RNS superstring theory and deformed pure spinors

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09047600MaRDI QIDQ3553601zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dimitri Polyakov

Publication date 21 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3663

zbMATH Keywords

BRST chargesRNS superstrings

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 show that new BRST charges in RNS superstring theory with nonstandard ghost numbers, constructed in our recent work, can be mapped to deformed pure spinor (PS) superstring theories, with the nilpotent pure spinor BRST charge $Q_{PS}=ointlambd{a}^{a}lpha{d}_{a}lpha$ still retaining its form but with singular operator products between commuting spinor variables $lambd{a}^{a}lpha$. Despite the OPE singularities, the pure spinor condition $lambdagamm{a}^{m}lambda=0$ is still fulfilled in a weak sense, explained in the paper. The operator product singularities correspond to introducing interactions between the pure spinors. We conjecture that the leading singularity orders of the OPE between two interacting pure spinors is related to the ghost number of the corresponding BRST operator in RNS formalism. Namely, it is conjectured that the BRST operators of minimal superconformal ghost numbers $n=1,2,\mathrm{3...}$ can be mapped to nilpotent BRST operators in the deformed pure spinor formalism with the OPE of two commuting spinors having a leading singularity order $lambda(z)lambda(w)simO(z-w{)}^{-2(n^2+6n+1)}$. The conjecture is checked explicitly for the first non-trivial case $n=1$.

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