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Comments on complete actions for open superstring field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-07-17 v2

Abstract

We clarify a Wess-Zumino-Wtten-like structure including Ramond fields and propose one systematic way to construct gauge invariant actions: Wess-Zumino-Witten-like complete action SWZWS_{\rm WZW}. We show that Kunitomo-Okawa's action proposed in arXiv:1508.00366 can obtain a topological parameter dependence of Ramond fields and belongs to our WZW-like framework. In this framework, once a WZW-like functional Aη=Aη[Ψ]\mathcal{A}_{\eta } = \mathcal{A}_{\eta } [\Psi ] of a dynamical string field Ψ\Psi is constructed, we obtain one realization of SWZWS_{\rm WZW} parametrized by Ψ\Psi . On the basis of this way, we construct an action S~\widetilde{S} whose on-shell condition is equivalent to the Ramond equations of motion proposed in arXiv:1506.05774. Using these results, we provide the equivalence of two these theories: arXiv:1508.00366 and arXiv:1506.05774.

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@article{arxiv.1510.06023,
  title  = {Comments on complete actions for open superstring field theory},
  author = {Hiroaki Matsunaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06023},
  year   = {2018}
}

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