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Multiloop Superstring Amplitudes from Non-Minimal Pure Spinor Formalism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Using the non-minimal version of the pure spinor formalism, manifestly super-Poincare covariant superstring scattering amplitudes can be computed as in topological string theory without the need of picture-changing operators. The only subtlety comes from regularizing the functional integral over the pure spinor ghosts. In this paper, it is shown how to regularize this functional integral in a BRST-invariant manner, allowing the computation of arbitrary multiloop amplitudes. The regularization method simplifies for scattering amplitudes which contribute to ten-dimensional F-terms, i.e. terms in the ten-dimensional superspace action which do not involve integration over the maximum number of θ\theta's.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0609012,
  title  = {Multiloop Superstring Amplitudes from Non-Minimal Pure Spinor Formalism},
  author = {Nathan Berkovits and Nikita Nekrasov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0609012},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

23 pages harvmac, added acknowledgement