A Minimal b Ghost

DOI10.1002/PROP.202300056MaRDI QIDQ6092882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Cederwall

Publication date 23 November 2023

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14417

zbMATH Keywords

pure spinorssupersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: The $b$ ghost, or $b$ operator, used for fixing Siegel gauge in the pure spinor superfield formalism, is a composite operator of negative ghost number, satisfying $q,b=square$, where $q$ is the pure spinor differential (BRST operator). It is traditionally constructed using non-minimal variables. However, since all cohomology has minimal representatives, it seems likely that there should be versions of physically meaningful operators, also with negative ghost number, using only minimal variables. The purpose of this letter is to demonstrate that this statement holds by providing a concrete construction in $D=10$ super-Yang-Mills theory, and to argue that it is a general feature in the pure spinor superfield formalism.

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