Towards relating the kappa-symmetric and pure-spinor versions of the supermembrane
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Publication:440459
DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/059zbMATH Open1245.81137arXiv0808.3691OpenAlexW1969736572MaRDI QIDQ440459FDOQ440459
Authors: Mirela Băbălîc, Niclas Wyllard 
Publication date: 18 August 2012
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study the relation between the kappa-symmetric formulation of the supermembrane in eleven dimensions and the pure-spinor version. Recently, Berkovits related the Green-Schwarz and pure-spinor superstrings. In this paper, we attempt to extend this method to the supermembrane. We show that it is possible to reinstate the reparameterisation constraints in the pure-spinor formulation of the supermembrane by introducing a topological sector and performing a similarity transformation. The resulting BRST charge is then of conventional type and is argued to be (related to) the BRST charge of the kappa-symmetric supermembrane in a formulation where all second class constraints are 'gauge unfixed' to first class constraints. In our analysis we also encounter a natural candidate for a (non-covariant) supermembrane analogue of the superstring b ghost.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3691
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