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Integrating out the fermions in AdS

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-17 v4

Abstract

Not much is known about superstring scattering amplitudes in curved backgrounds. Using the hybrid formalism in AdS3×S3\rm AdS_3 \times S^3 with pure NS-NS three-form flux, we compute a PSU(1,12)\rm PSU(1,1|2)-covariant three-point amplitude for half-BPS vertex operators inserted on the AdS3\rm AdS_3 boundary and show that it agrees with the RNS computation. The zero-mode prescription for the fermions in AdS\rm AdS is defined in terms of the "standard" spacetime SUSY generator. It is found that integrating out the fermionic worldsheet fields in the path integral gives rise to the target-space vielbein, which explicitly encodes that the conformal group on the boundary is identified with the symmetry group of the AdS\rm AdS bulk.

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@article{arxiv.2408.10418,
  title  = {Integrating out the fermions in AdS},
  author = {Cassiano A. Daniel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10418},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28+12 pp; v2: added reference and comment in conclusion; V3: added reference and comment in introduction; v4: corrected typo

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