Pure spinor b-ghost in a super-Maxwell background

In the pure spinor formalism for the superstring, the b-ghost is a composite operator satisfying {Q, b} = T where Q is the pure spinor BRST operator and T is the holomorphic stress tensor. The b-ghost is holomorphic in a flat target-space background, but it is not holomorphic in a generic curved tar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Bakhmatov, Ilya [UNESP], Berkovits, Nathan [UNESP]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/227618
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2013)214
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/227618
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:BRST Symmetry
Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
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Sumario:In the pure spinor formalism for the superstring, the b-ghost is a composite operator satisfying {Q, b} = T where Q is the pure spinor BRST operator and T is the holomorphic stress tensor. The b-ghost is holomorphic in a flat target-space background, but it is not holomorphic in a generic curved target-space background and instead satisfies ∂̄b = [Q,Ω] for some Ω. In this paper, Ω is explicitly constructed for the case of an open superstring in a super-Maxwell background. © SISSA 2013.