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The Ramond Sector of Heterotic String Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-05-07 v6

Abstract

We attempt to construct the full equations of motion for the Neveu-Schwarz and the Ramond sectors of the heterotic string field theory. Although they are non-polynomial also in the Ramond string field Ψ\Psi, we can construct them order by order in Ψ\Psi. Their explicit forms with the gauge transformations are given up to the next-to-next-to-leading order in Ψ\Psi. We also determine a subset of the terms to all orders. By introducing an auxiliary Ramond string field Ξ\Xi, we construct a covariant action supplemented with a constraint, which should be imposed on the equations of motion. We propose the Feynman rules and show how they reproduce well-known physical four-point amplitudes with external fermions.

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@article{arxiv.1312.7197,
  title  = {The Ramond Sector of Heterotic String Field Theory},
  author = {Hiroshi Kunitomo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.7197},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

33 pages, 5 figures, uses PTPTeX.cls, v2:forms of general terms in EOM and the action are modified, v3:some explanations are improved, one extra appendix is added, published version, v4:an error is corrected,v5;typos in appA, v6:typos