CHIRAL SUPERSTRING AMPLITUDES AND THE GSO PROJECTION

Feb 10, 1989
11 pages
Published in:
  • Mod.Phys.Lett.A 4 (1989) 1335
Report number:
  • UCLA/88/TEP/46

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Abstract: (WSP)
Chirally symmetric amplitudes for the scattering of bosonic massless particles at fixed spin structures are shown to split into the absolute values squared of a chiral amplitude at fixed internal momenta. Chiral amplitudes are holomorphic in supermoduli and chiral polarization tensors, meromorphic in vertex operators insertion points. They may be recast in terms of intrinsic complex supergeometric objects. Amplitudes of opposite chirality may be endowed with independent spin structures so that the GSO projection can be enforced to construct the superstring.
  • MODEL: STRING
  • SUPERSYMMETRY: SUPERFIELD
  • SYMMETRY: CHIRAL
  • FIELD THEORY: PATH INTEGRAL
  • SCATTERING AMPLITUDE: HIGHER-ORDER
  • HIGHER-ORDER: SCATTERING AMPLITUDE
  • MATHEMATICAL METHODS: Riemann surface