Resolving Witten's Superstring Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-18 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We regulate Witten's open superstring field theory by replacing the picture-changing insertion at the midpoint with a contour integral of picture changing insertions over the half-string overlaps of the cubic vertex. The resulting product between string fields is non-associative, but we provide a solution to the relations defining all higher vertices. The result is an explicit covariant superstring field theory which by construction satisfies the classical BV master equation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.2948,
title = {Resolving Witten's Superstring Field Theory},
author = {Theodore Erler and Sebastian Konopka and Ivo Sachs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2948},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
V2: Added discussion of 4-point amplitudes. 33 pages, 4 figures