Taming the b antighost with Ramond-Ramond flux

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)019zbMATH Open1294.81164arXiv1004.5140OpenAlexW3125471023MaRDI QIDQ406933FDOQ406933

Luca Mazzucato, Nathan J. Berkovits

Publication date: 29 August 2014

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

Abstract: In the pure spinor formalism for the superstring, the b antighost is necessary for multiloop amplitude computations and is a composite operator constructed to satisfy {Q,b}=T where Q is the BRST operator and T is the holomorphic stress-tensor. In superstring backgrounds with only NS-NS fields turned on, or in flat space, one needs to introduce "non-minimal" variables in order to construct the b antighost. However, in Type II backgrounds where the Ramond-Ramond bispinor field-strength satisfies certain conditions, the b antighost can be constructed without the non-minimal variables. Although the b antighost in these backgrounds is not holomorphic, its antiholomorphic derivative is BRST-trivial. We discuss the properties of this operator both in the AdS_5 x S^5 background and in a generic curved background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5140

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zbMATH Keywords

BRST symmetryconformal field models in string theorysuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Feynman diagrams (81T18) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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