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Dynamical twisting and the b ghost in the pure spinor formalism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

After adding an RNS-like fermionic vector \psi^m to the pure spinor formalism, the non-minimal b ghost takes a simple form similar to the pure spinor BRST operator. The N=2 superconformal field theory generated by the b ghost and the BRST current can be interpreted as a "dynamical twisting" of the RNS formalism where the choice of which spin half \psi^m variables are twisted into spin 0 and spin 1 variables is determined by the pure spinor variables that parameterize the coset SO(10)/U(5).

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@article{arxiv.1305.0693,
  title  = {Dynamical twisting and the b ghost in the pure spinor formalism},
  author = {Nathan Berkovits},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0693},
  year   = {2015}
}

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