Relating the Green-Schwarz and Pure Spinor Formalisms for the Superstring
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-08-11 v2
Abstract
Although it is not known how to covariantly quantize the Green-Schwarz (GS) superstring, there exists a semi-light-cone gauge choice in which the GS superstring can be quantized in a conformally invariant manner. In this paper, we prove that BRST quantization of the GS superstring in semi-light-cone gauge is equivalent to BRST quantization using the pure spinor formalism for the superstring.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412198,
title = {Relating the Green-Schwarz and Pure Spinor Formalisms for the Superstring},
author = {Nathan Berkovits and Dafni Z. Marchioro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412198},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
16 pages, JHEP format, fixed typos and added 2 footnotes