Manifest Spacetime Supersymmetry and the Superstring
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-11-03 v1
Abstract
The algebra of spacetime supersymmetry generators in the RNS formalism for the superstring closes only up to a picture-changing operation. After adding non-minimal variables and working in the "large" Hilbert space, the algebra closes without picture-changing and spacetime supersymmetry can be made manifest. The resulting non-minimal version of the RNS formalism is related by a field redefinition to the pure spinor formalism.
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@article{arxiv.2106.04448,
title = {Manifest Spacetime Supersymmetry and the Superstring},
author = {Nathan Berkovits},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04448},
year = {2021}
}
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10 pages