Review of Open Superstring Field Theory

Abstract

I review the construction of an action for open superstring field theory which does not suffer from the contact term problems of other approaches. This action resembles a Wess-Zumino-Witten action and can be constructed in a manifestly D=4 super-Poincaré covariant manner. This review is based on lectures given at the ICTP Latin-American String School in Mexico City and the Komaba 2000 Workshop in Tokyo.

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