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In the Type II superstring the 4-point function for massless NS-NS bosons at one-loop is well known [1][14]. The overall constant factor in this amplitude is very important because it needs to satisfy the unitarity and S-duality conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-04 Humberto Gomez

This is the first installment of a series of three papers in which we describe a method to determine higher-point correlation functions in one-loop open-superstring amplitudes from first principles. In this first part, we exploit the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

This is the second of a series of two papers where decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism is investigated. The multi-loop amplitude prescription for the minimal pure spinor superstring formulated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Nathan Berkovits , Joost Hoogeveen , Kostas Skenderis

A new manifestly spacetime-supersymmetric prescription for superstring amplitude computations is given using the pure spinor formalism which does not contain subtleties from poles in the pure spinor ghosts. This super-Poincare covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-23 Nathan Berkovits

We develop a pure spinor worldline formalism for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 11D supergravity. Focusing first on the 4-point amplitude, we demonstrate that our prescription is consistent with BRST symmetry and gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Max Guillen , Marcelo dos Santos , Eggon Viana

The discovery of pure spinor formalism makes the computation of superstring scattering amplitudes possible. In this paper, we will illustrate how computer algebra system Cadabra is used in computing the supersymmetric amplitude in pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 Ke-Sheng Sun , Xiang-Mao Ding , Fei Sun , Hai-Bin Zhang

Superstring amplitudes of an arbitrary genus are calculated through super-Schottky parameters by a summation over the fermion strings. For a calculation of divergent multi-loop fermion string amplitudes a supermodular invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Danilov

We present a prescription for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 10D super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory using the pure spinor worldline formalism. The pure spinor formalism has proven to be a powerful framework for studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Max Guillen , Marcelo dos Santos , Eggon Viana

We give a new, manifestly spacetime-supersymmetric method for calculating superstring scattering amplitudes, using the ghost pyramid, that is simpler than all other known methods. No pictures nor non-vertex insertions are required other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Kiyoung Lee , Warren Siegel

In this paper, we outline a method to compute supersymmetric one-loop integrands in ten-dimensional SYM theory. It relies on the constructive interplay between their cubic-graph organization and BRST invariance of the underlying pure spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Using a new proposal for the "picture lowering" operators, we compute the tree level scattering amplitude in the minimal pure spinor formalism by performing the integration over the pure spinor space as a multidimensional Cauchy-type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-09 Oscar A. Bedoya , Humberto Gomez

Explicit expressions for one-loop five supergraviton scattering amplitudes in both type II superstring theories are determined by making use of the pure spinor formalism. The type IIB amplitude can be expressed in terms of a doubling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael B. Green , Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

In {\em Phys.\ Lett.} {\bf B 660}, 583 (2008), it was proposed that the D-brane geometry could be produced by open string quantum effects. In an effort to verify the proposal, we consider scattering amplitudes involving {\em massive} open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-02 I. Y. Park

Multiloop superstring amplitudes are calculated in the explicit form by the solution of Ward identities. A naive generalization of Belavin-Knizhnik theorem to the superstring is found to be incorrect since the period matrix turns out to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Danilov

We describe a pure spinor BRST cohomology framework to compactly represent ten-dimensional one-loop amplitudes involving any number of massless open- and closed-string states. The method of previous work to construct scalar and vectorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-18 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

In a previous work, we have constructed a reparametrization invariant worldsheet action from which one can derive the super-Poincare covariant pure spinor formalism for the superstring at the fully quantum level. The main idea was the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Aisaka , Yoichi Kazama

We study the multiloop amplitudes of the light-cone gauge closed bosonic string field theory for $d \neq 26$. We show that the amplitudes can be recast into a BRST invariant form by adding a nonstandard worldsheet theory for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Nobuyuki Ishibashi , Koichi Murakami

We present the massless six-point one-loop amplitudes in the open and closed superstring using BRST cohomology arguments from the pure spinor formalism. The hexagon gauge anomaly is traced back to a class of kinematic factors in pure spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-05 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

The full two-loop amplitudes for five massless states in Type~II and Heterotic superstrings are constructed in terms of convergent integrals over the genus-two moduli space of compact Riemann surfaces and integrals of Green functions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-06 Eric D'Hoker , Carlos R. Mafra , Boris Pioline , Oliver Schlotterer

Based on the recent developments of explicit computations at 2 loops in superstring theory in the covariant RNS formalism, we propose an explicit formula for the arbitrary loop 4-particle amplitude in superstring theory. We prove that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chuan-Jie Zhu