Superstring Amplitudes and Contact Interactions

Aug, 1987
21 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 304 (1988) 108-128
  • Published: 1988
Report number:
  • NBI-HE-87-58,
  • LBL-23830

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We show that scattering amplitudes computed from light-cone superstring field theory are divergent at tree level. The divergences can be eliminated, and supersymmetry restored, by the addition of certain counter terms to the light-cone hamiltonian. These counter terms have the form of local contact interactions, whose existence we had previously deduced on grounds of vacuum stability and closure of the super-Poincaré algebra. The quartic contact interactions required in type I and type IIB superstring theories are constructed in detail.
  • MODEL: STRING
  • SUPERSYMMETRY
  • STRING: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: STRING
  • MODEL: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: MODEL
  • SCATTERING AMPLITUDE
  • FIELD THEORY: LIGHT CONE GAUGE
  • RENORMALIZATION: REGULARIZATION
  • STABILITY: VACUUM STATE