Decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism I

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)041zbMATH Open1269.81133arXiv0906.3368OpenAlexW2088007773WikidataQ59255182 ScholiaQ59255182MaRDI QIDQ359101FDOQ359101

Kostas Skenderis, Joost Hoogeveen

Publication date: 9 August 2013

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

Abstract: This is the first of a series of two papers where decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism is investigated. The multi-loop amplitude prescription for the minimal pure spinor superstring formulated in hep-th/0406055 involves the insertion of picture changing operators in the path integral. These operators are BRST closed in a distributional sense and depend on a number of constant tensors. One can trace the origin of these insertions to gauge fixing, so the amplitudes are formally independent of the constant tensors. We show however by explicit tree-level and one-loop computations that the picture changing operators are not BRST closed inside correlators and the amplitudes do depend on these constant tensors. This is due to the fact that the gauge fixing condition implicit in the existing minimal amplitude prescription is singular and this can lead to Lorentz violation and non-decoupling of BRST exact states. As discussed in hep-th/0406055, a manifestly Lorentz invariant prescription can be obtained by integrating over the constant tensors and in the sequel to this paper, it is shown that when one includes these integrations unphysical states do decouple to all orders despite the fact that the PCO's are not BRST closed inside correlators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3368

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zbMATH Keywords

BRST symmetrysuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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