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R^4, purified

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-27 v2

Abstract

We derive, using the pure-spinor formalism, the complete -- including the fermions -- four-point effective action of both type II superstrings to all orders in α\alpha', at tree level in string loops. We find that, in the quartic-field approximation, the supergravity Lagrangian can be thought of as the tensor product, in a suitable sense, of two copies of the superYang-Mills Lagrangian in ten dimensions. The NS-NS three-form enters the supergravity Lagrangian through a modified connection with torsion. As a byproduct, we derive the complete, i.e. to all orders in the θ\theta-expansion, closed-string vertex operator in a flat target-space background.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0603165,
  title  = {R^4, purified},
  author = {Giuseppe Policastro and Dimitrios Tsimpis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0603165},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

32 pages. v2: minor corrections in the text; references added, including references to early pioneering work on pure spinors