An introduction to pure spinor superstring theory

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-65427-0_6MaRDI QIDQ4601538zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan J. Berkovits, Humberto Gomez

Publication date 16 January 2018

Published in Quantization, Geometry and Noncommutative Structures in Mathematics and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09966

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: In these lecture notes presented at the 2015 Villa de Leyva Summer School, we give an introduction to superstring theory. We begin by studying the particle and superparticle in order to get a better understanding on the superstring side. Afterwards, we review the pure spinor formalism and end by computing the scattering amplitude for three gravitons at tree-level.

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