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Pure Spinor b-ghost in a Super-Maxwell Background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

In the pure spinor formalism for the superstring, the b-ghost is a composite operator satisfying {Q,b}=T where Q is the pure spinor BRST operator and T is the holomorphic stress tensor. The b-ghost is holomorphic in a flat target-space background, but it is not holomorphic in a generic curved target-space background and instead satisfies ˉb\bar\partial b = [Q, \Omega] for some \Omega. In this paper, \Omega\ is explicitly constructed for the case of an open superstring in a super-Maxwell background.

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@article{arxiv.1310.3379,
  title  = {Pure Spinor b-ghost in a Super-Maxwell Background},
  author = {Ilya Bakhmatov and Nathan Berkovits},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3379},
  year   = {2015}
}

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20 pages

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