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Materializing Superghosts

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-04-30 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We construct the off-shell BV realization of N=1, d=10 SYM with 7 auxillary fields. This becomes possible due to materialized ghost phenomenon. Namely, supersymmetry ghosts are coordinates on a manifold B of 10-dimensional spinors with pure spinors cut out. Auxillary fields are sections of a bundle over B, and supersymmetry transformations are nonlinear in ghosts. By integrating out axillary fields we obtain on-shell supersymmetric BV action with terms quadratic in antifields. Exactly this on-shell BV action was obtained in our previous paper after integration out of auxiliary fields in the framework of Pure Spinor Superfield Formalism.

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@article{arxiv.0707.1906,
  title  = {Materializing Superghosts},
  author = {Victor Alexandrov and Dmitry Krotov and Andrei Losev and Vyacheslav Lysov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1906},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages

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