Manifest Spacetime Supersymmetry and the Superstring

Abstract

The algebra of spacetime supersymmetry generators in the RNS formalism for the superstring closes only up to a picture-changing operation. After adding non-minimal variables and working in the "large" Hilbert space, the algebra closes without picture-changing and spacetime supersymmetry can be made manifest. The resulting non-minimal version of the RNS formalism is related by a field redefinition to the pure spinor formalism.

10 pages

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Tree-level amplitudes from the pure spinor superstring
• B-RNS-GSS heterotic string in curved backgrounds
• Taming the 11D pure spinor b-ghost
• Pure spinor formulation of the superstring and its applications
• D=5 Holomorphic Chern-Simons and the Pure Spinor Superstring