On the b-antighost in the pure spinor quantization of superstrings

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.11.077zbMATH Open1247.81509arXivhep-th/0409052OpenAlexW2073730338MaRDI QIDQ451539FDOQ451539

Mario Tonin, Ichiro Oda

Publication date: 23 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently Berkovits has constructed a picture raised, compound field $b_B$ which is used to compute higher loop amplitudes in the pure spinor approach of superstrings. On the other hand, in the twisted and gauge fixed, superembedding approach with $n=2$ world-sheet (w.s.) supersymmetry that reproduces the pure spinor formulation, a field $b$ appears quite naturally as the current of one of the two twisted charges of the w.s. supersymmetry, the other being the BRST charge. In this paper we study the relation between $b$ and $b_B$. We shall show that $bZ$, where $Z$ is a picture raising operator, and $b_B$ belong to the same BRST cohomological class. This result is of importance since it implies that the cumbersome singularity which is present in $b$, is in fact harmless if $b$ is combined with $Z$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0409052

zbMATH Keywords

superstrings\(b\)-antighostpure spinor quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Cites Work

• The superembedding origin of the Berkovits pure spinor covariant quantization of superstrings
• On the Berkovits covariant quantization of GS superstring

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