Relating the RNS and Pure Spinor Formalisms for the Superstring
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Recently, the superstring was covariantly quantized using the BRST-like operator where is a pure spinor and are the fermionic Green-Schwarz constraints. By performing a field redefinition and a similarity transformation, this BRST-like operator is mapped to the sum of the Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz BRST operator and ghost. This map is then used to relate physical vertex operators and tree amplitudes in the two formalisms. Furthermore, the map implies the existence of a ghost in the pure spinor formalism which might be useful for loop amplitude computations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0104247,
title = {Relating the RNS and Pure Spinor Formalisms for the Superstring},
author = {Nathan Berkovits},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0104247},
year = {2009}
}
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