Relating the Green-Schwarz and Pure Spinor Formalisms for the Superstring

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17 December 2004

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

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.

Keywords

PURE SPINOR FORMALISMS
SPINOR FORMALISMS
GREEN SCHWARZ
QUANTIZATION
SUPERSTRING
SCHWARZ
BRST

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Published version: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2005 (01), 018.

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