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Superstring Interactions in a pp-wave Background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We construct light-cone gauge superstring field theory in a pp-wave background with Ramond-Ramond flux. The leading term in the interaction Hamiltonian is determined up to an overall function of p+p^+ by requiring closure of the pp-wave superalgebra. The bosonic and fermionic Neumann matrices for this cubic vertex are derived, as is the interaction point operator. We comment on the development of a 1/μp+1/\mu p^+ expansion for these results.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0204146,
  title  = {Superstring Interactions in a pp-wave Background},
  author = {Marcus Spradlin and Anastasia Volovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0204146},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

35 pages, 3 figures. v3:typos fixed, a couple of helpful remarks added (including one un-commented out from the v1 source file)