Conquest of the ghost pyramid of the superstring

Abstract

We give a new Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin operator for the superstring. It implies a quadratic gauge-fixed action, and a new gauge-invariant action with first-class constraints. The infinite pyramid of spinor ghosts appears in a simple way through ghost gamma matrices.

arXiv comment30 pages, 1 figure, Latex

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