Origin of the pure spinor and Green-Schwarz formalisms
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2015-07-28
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Berkovits, Nathan [UNESP]
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The pure spinor formalism for the superstring was recently obtained by gauge-fixing a purely bosonic classical action involving a twistor-like constraint ∂x<sup>m</sup>(γ<inf>m</inf>λ)<inf>α</inf> = 0 where λ<sup>α</sup> is a d=10 pure spinor. This twistor-like constraint replaces the usual Virasoro constraint ∂x<sup>m</sup>∂x<inf>m</inf> = 0, and the Green-Schwarz fermionic spacetime spinor variables θ<sup>α</sup> arise as Faddeev-Popov ghosts for this constraint. In this paper, the purely bosonic classical action is simplified by replacing the classical d=10 pure spinor λ<sup>α</sup> with a d=10 projective pure spinor. The pure spinor and Green-Schwarz formalisms for the superparticle and superstring are then obtained as different gauge-fixings of this purely bosonic classical action, and the Green-Schwarz kappa symmetry is directly related to the pure spinor BRST symmetry. Since a d=10 projective pure spinor parameterizes (Formula presented.), this action can be interpreted as a standard ĉ = 5 topological action where one integrates over the (Formula presented.) choice of complex structure. Finally, a purely bosonic action for the d=11 supermembrane is proposed which reduces upon double-dimensional reduction to the purely bosonic action for the d=10 Type IIA superstring.
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BRST Symmetry, Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
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Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2015, n. 7, 2015.