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Quantization of Superstrings in Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We present a perturbative study of Ramond-Ramond backgrounds in the NSR formalism. We show how to perform sigma-model computations and discuss in detail the structure of the BRST charge and picture-changing operators. Contact terms play a vital role in the analysis. We also give evidence for a two loop non-renormalization theorem for the background beta functions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9910145,
  title  = {Quantization of Superstrings in Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds},
  author = {David Berenstein and Robert G. Leigh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9910145},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

29 pages, 1 figure; uses LaTeX, epsf, hyperref packages; references added

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