Notes on reductions of superstring theory to bosonic string theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-15 v3
Abstract
It is in general very subtle to integrate over the odd moduli of super Riemann surfaces in perturbative superstring computations. We study how these subtleties go away in favorable cases, including the embedding of N=0 string to N=1 string by Berkovits and Vafa, and the relation of the graviphoton amplitude and the topological string amplitude by Antoniadis, Gava, Narain and Taylor and Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri and Vafa. The Poincar\'e dual of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces in the moduli space of super Riemann surfaces plays an important role.
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@article{arxiv.1303.7299,
title = {Notes on reductions of superstring theory to bosonic string theory},
author = {Kantaro Ohmori and Yuji Tachikawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7299},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages, v3: additional discussions using PCOs, published version