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Pure Spinor Partition Function and the Massive Superstring Spectrum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-10-27 v1

Abstract

We explicitly compute up to the fifth mass-level the partition function of ten-dimensional pure spinor worldsheet variables including the spin dependence. After adding the contribution from the (x^{\mu}, \theta^{\alpha}, p_{\alpha}) matter variables, we reproduce the massive superstring spectrum. Even though pure spinor variables are bosonic, the pure spinor partition function contains fermionic states which first appear at the second mass-level. These fermionic states come from functions which are not globally defined in pure spinor space, and are related to the b ghost in the pure spinor formalism. This result clarifies the proper definition of the Hilbert space for pure spinor variables.

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@article{arxiv.0806.0584,
  title  = {Pure Spinor Partition Function and the Massive Superstring Spectrum},
  author = {Yuri Aisaka and E. Aldo Arroyo and Nathan Berkovits and Nikita Nekrasov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0584},
  year   = {2014}
}

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81 pages

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