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A consistent light-cone-gauge superstring field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-31 v2

Abstract

Extending a recent development in the bosonic string field theory, we construct a map from the Witten-type gauge-invariant superstring field theory based on an AA_{\infty} structure to a light-cone-gauge superstring field theory via two intermediate theories, which we call the Kaku-type and Kugo-Zwiebach-type superstring field theories. We find that a naive extension only gives us an inconsistent light-cone-gauge theory that suffers from the well-known problem caused by divergence due to collisions of local operators. However, we also find that this difficulty may be resolved by considering the stubbed theory and propose it as a consistent light-cone-gauge superstring field theory. The result possibly gives a proof of the unitarity of the Witten-type superstring field theory.

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@article{arxiv.2411.19570,
  title  = {A consistent light-cone-gauge superstring field theory},
  author = {Yuji Ando and Ryota Fujii and Hiroshi Kunitomo and Jojiro Totsuka-Yoshinaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.19570},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

63 pages, 6 figures, v2:Sec.5.3 and related parts are revised, Fixed several typos

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:16:35.981Z