Compactification of the Heterotic Pure Spinor Superstring I
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-05 v2
Abstract
In this paper we begin the study of compactifications of the pure spinor formalism for superstrings. As a first example of such a process we study the case of the heterotic string in a Calabi-Yau background. We explicitly construct a BRST operator imposing N=1 four-dimensional supersymmetry and show that nilpotence implies Kahler and Ricci-flatness conditions. The massless spectrum is computed using this BRST operator and it agrees with the expected result.
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@article{arxiv.0907.2247,
title = {Compactification of the Heterotic Pure Spinor Superstring I},
author = {Osvaldo Chandia and William D. Linch and Brenno Carlini Vallilo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2247},
year = {2009}
}
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20 pages