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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 AA_\infty relations defining all higher vertices. The result is an explicit covariant superstring field theory which by construction satisfies the classical BV master equation.

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@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}
}

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V2: Added discussion of 4-point amplitudes. 33 pages, 4 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T02:24:56.743Z