Quantization of the superstring in Ramond-Ramond backgrounds

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/5/306zbMATH Open0952.81043arXivhep-th/9910251OpenAlexW3126058950MaRDI QIDQ4499381FDOQ4499381

Authors: Nathan J. Berkovits 

Publication date: 30 August 2000

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Sigma model actions are constructed for the Type II superstring compactified to four and six dimensional curved backgrounds which can contain non-vanishing Ramond-Ramond fields. These actions are N=2 worldsheet superconformally invariant and can be covariantly quantized preserving manifest spacetime supersymmetry. They are constructed using a hybrid version of superstring variables which combines features of the Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz and Green-Schwarz formalisms. For the $Ad{S}_{2}imes{S}^2$ and $Ad{S}_{3}imes{S}^3$ backgrounds, these actions differ from the classical Greeen-Schwarz actions by a crucial kinetic term for the fermions. Parts of this work have been done in collaborations with M. Bershadsky, T. Hauer, W. Siegel, C. Vafa, E. Witten, S. Zhukov and B. Zwiebach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910251

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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