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BRST Cohomology and Nonlocal Conserved Charges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v1

Abstract

A relation is found between nonlocal conserved charges in string theory and certain ghost-number two states in the BRST cohomology. This provides a simple proof that the nonlocal conserved charges for the superstring in an AdS_5 x S^5 background are BRST-invariant in the pure spinor formalism and are kappa-symmetric in the Green-Schwarz formalism.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409159,
  title  = {BRST Cohomology and Nonlocal Conserved Charges},
  author = {Nathan Berkovits},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409159},
  year   = {2010}
}

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