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A Note on GSO-Free RNS Superstrings and Pure Spinor Constraint

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-24 v3

Abstract

Using an elementary perturbative open string field theory solution involving a twistor-like parameter, we study the cohomology of new nilpotent BRST charge corresponding to the space-time background defined by this solution. The BRST cohomology of the deformed background automatically cuts off the GSO-odd spectrum in RNS superstring theory and keeps the GSO-even spectrum intact, without a need of GSO-projection. The on-shell constraints in the GSO-even sector get deformed in the new background, corresponding to BRST type transformations of the low-energy effective action with the ghost-like commuting spinor parameter satisfying the pure spinor constraint in d=10d=10.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02618,
  title  = {A Note on GSO-Free RNS Superstrings and Pure Spinor Constraint},
  author = {Dimitri Polyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02618},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, typos corrected, notation inaccuracy in eq. (20) fixed

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