Compactification of the heterotic pure spinor superstring II

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)098MaRDI QIDQ489542zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Osvaldo Chandia, W. D. Linch, Brenno Carlini Vallilo

Publication date 20 January 2015

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3555

zbMATH Keywords

superstring vacuasuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) 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) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We study compactifications of the heterotic pure spinor superstring to six and four dimensions focusing on two simple Calabi-Yau orbifolds. We show that the correct spectrum can be reproduced only if, in the twisted sector, there remain exactly 5 and 2 pure spinor components untwisted, respectively. This naturally defines a "small" Hilbert space of untwisted variables. We point out that the cohomology of the reduced differential on this small Hilbert space can be used to describe the states in the untwisted sector, provided certain auxiliary constraints are defined. In dimension six, the mismatch between the number of pure spinor components in the small Hilbert space and the number of components of a six-dimensional pure spinor is interpreted as providing the projective measure on the analytic subspace (in the projective description) of harmonic superspace.

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