Taming the b antighost with Ramond-Ramond flux
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2010-11-01
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Springer
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In the pure spinor formalism for the superstring, the b antighost is necessary for multiloop amplitude computations and is a composite operator constructed to satisfy {Q, b} = T where Q is the BRST operator and T is the holomorphic stress-tensor. In superstring backgrounds with only NS-NS fields turned on, or in flat space, one needs to introduce "non-minimal" variables in order to construct the b antighost. However, in Type II backgrounds where the Ramond-Ramond bispinor field-strength satisfies certain conditions, the b antighost can be constructed without the non-minimal variables. Although the b antighost in these backgrounds is not holomorphic, its antiholomorphic derivative is BRST-trivial. We discuss the properties of this operator both in the AdS(5)xS(5) background and in a generic curved background.
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Superstrings and Heterotic Strings, Conformal Field Models in String Theory, BRST Symmetry
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Journal of High Energy Physics. New York: Springer, n. 11, p. 20, 2010.