OPEN SUPERSTRINGS A LA POLYAKOV

May, 1986
49 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 291 (1987) 285-333
  • Published: 1987
Report number:
  • Print-86-0929 (IAS,PRINCETON)

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We set up the Polyakov path integral formalism for the type-I superstring at tree and one-loop level of string perturbation theory. The relevant super-Teichmüller parameters, conformal Killing spinors, and functional determinants are given explicitly. As an application the one-loop vacuum energy for the open superstring is computed and shown to vanish for the torus, Klein bottle, cylinder and Möbius strip separately.
  • SUPERSYMMETRY
  • MODEL: STRING
  • PERTURBATION THEORY: HIGHER-ORDER
  • FIELD THEORY: PATH INTEGRAL
  • SCATTERING AMPLITUDE
  • ANOMALY
  • COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
  • MATHEMATICAL METHODS: GEOMETRICAL