Relating the Green-Schwarz and pure spinor formalisms for the superstring
Dec, 200416 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 01 (2005) 018
e-Print:
- hep-th/0412198 [hep-th]
Report number:
- IFT-P-058-2004,
- IFT-P.058-2004
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Although it is not known how to covariantly quantize the Green-Schwarz (GS) superstring, there exists a semi-light-cone gauge choice in which the GS superstring can be quantized in a conformally invariant manner. In this paper, we prove that BRST quantization of the GS superstring in semi-light-cone gauge is equivalent to BRST quantization using the pure spinor formalism for the superstring.- SUPERSTRINGS AND HETEROTIC STRINGS
- BRST SYMMETRY
- string model: heterotic
- supersymmetry
- light cone gauge
- quantization: Becchi-Rouet-Stora
- invariance: conformal
- operator product expansion
- spinor
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