Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator
The WZW form of open superstring field theory has linearized gauge invariances associated with the BRST operator Q and the zero mode η [subscript 0] of the picture minus-one fermionic superconformal ghost. We discuss gauge fixing of the free theory in a simple class of gauges using the Faddeev-Popov...
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| author | Kroyter, Michael Okawa, Yuji Schnabl, Martin Torii, Shingo Zwiebach, Barton |
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| description | The WZW form of open superstring field theory has linearized gauge invariances associated with the BRST operator Q and the zero mode η [subscript 0] of the picture minus-one fermionic superconformal ghost. We discuss gauge fixing of the free theory in a simple class of gauges using the Faddeev-Popov method. We find that the world-sheet ghost number of ghost and antighost string fields ranges over all integers, except one, and at any fixed ghost number, only a finite number of picture numbers appear. We calculate the propagators in a variety of gauges and determine the field-antifield content and the free master action in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. Unlike the case of bosonic string field theory, the resulting master action is not simply related to the original gauge-invariant action by relaxing the constraint on the ghost and picture numbers. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/807982022-10-02T00:52:52Z Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator Kroyter, Michael Okawa, Yuji Schnabl, Martin Torii, Shingo Zwiebach, Barton Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Zwiebach, Barton The WZW form of open superstring field theory has linearized gauge invariances associated with the BRST operator Q and the zero mode η [subscript 0] of the picture minus-one fermionic superconformal ghost. We discuss gauge fixing of the free theory in a simple class of gauges using the Faddeev-Popov method. We find that the world-sheet ghost number of ghost and antighost string fields ranges over all integers, except one, and at any fixed ghost number, only a finite number of picture numbers appear. We calculate the propagators in a variety of gauges and determine the field-antifield content and the free master action in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. Unlike the case of bosonic string field theory, the resulting master action is not simply related to the original gauge-invariant action by relaxing the constraint on the ghost and picture numbers. United States. Dept. of Energy (Cooperative rRsearch Agreement DE-FG02-05ER41360.) 2013-09-18T16:00:20Z 2013-09-18T16:00:20Z 2012-03 2012-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 1126-6708 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80798 Kroyter, Michael, Yuji Okawa, Martin Schnabl, Shingo Torii, and Barton Zwiebach. Open Superstring Field Theory I: Gauge Fixing, Ghost Structure, and Propagator. Journal of High Energy Physics 2012, no. 3 (March 9, 2012). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6504-3210 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2012)030 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Kroyter, Michael Okawa, Yuji Schnabl, Martin Torii, Shingo Zwiebach, Barton Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator |
| title | Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator |
| title_full | Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator |
| title_fullStr | Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator |
| title_short | Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator |
| title_sort | open superstring field theory i gauge fixing ghost structure and propagator |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80798 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6504-3210 |
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