Path-Integral Quantization of the (2,2) String

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97002632zbMATH Open0907.58082arXivhep-th/9612218MaRDI QIDQ4211978FDOQ4211978

Olaf Lechtenfeld, Jan Bischoff

Publication date: 18 October 1998

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

Abstract: A complete treatment of the (2,2) NSR string in flat (2+2) dimensional space-time is given, from the formal path integral over N=2 super Riemann surfaces to the computational recipe for amplitudes at any loop or gauge instanton number. We perform in detail the superconformal gauge fixing, discuss the spectral flow, and analyze the supermoduli space with emphasis on the gauge moduli. Background gauge field configurations in all instanton sectors are constructed. We develop chiral bosonization on punctured higher-genus surfaces in the presence of gauge moduli and instantons. The BRST cohomology is recapitulated, with a new space-time interpretation for picture-changing. We point out two ways of combining left- and right-movers, which lead to different three-point functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612218

zbMATH Keywords

path integralspectral flowBRST cohomologysupermoduli spacechiral bosonizationgauge instanton numbergauge modulisuperconformal gauge fixing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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• \(A_\infty\)-algebra from supermanifolds
• CLOSED N=2 STRINGS: PICTURE-CHANGING, HIDDEN SYMMETRIES AND SDG HIERARCHY
• An approach to F-theory.
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• Path integrals evaluation in two-dimensional de Sitter space
• Little string theory and heterotic/type II duality
• Open \(N=2\) strings in a \(B\)-field background and noncommutative self-dual Yang-Mills
• \(N=2\) quantum string scattering
• Path-integral formulation of the Dirichlet string in general backgrounds
• Self-dual supergravity from \(N=2\) strings
• String-induced Yang-Mills coupling to self-dual gravity
• Extended self-dual Yang-Mills from the \(N=2\) string
• The ground ring of \(N=2\) minimal string theory
• Hidden symmetries of the open \(N=2\) string
• A heterotic \(N=2\) string with space-time supersymmetry

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