Cohomology in the pure spinor formalism for the superstring
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2000-12-01
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Berkovits, Nathan [UNESP]
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A manifestly super-Poincaré covariant formalism for the superstring has recently been constructed using a pure spinor variable. Unlike the covariant Green-Schwarz formalism, this new formalism is easily quantized with a BRST operator and tree-level scattering amplitudes have been evaluated in a manifestly covariant manner. In this paper, the cohomology of the BRST operator in the pure spinor formalism is shown to give the usual light-cone Green-Schwarz spectrum. Although the BRST operator does not directly involve the Virasoro constraint, this constraint emerges after expressing the pure spinor variable in terms of SO(8) variables.
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BRST Quantization, Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
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Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 4, n. 9 PART B, p. 1-11, 2000.