May 6 – 10, 2019
Arcetri, Firenze
Europe/Rome timezone

The underlying gauge theory of the pure spinor superstring

May 8, 2019, 11:00 AM
30m
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Arcetri, Firenze

Galileo Galilei Institute

Speaker

Rennan Lipinski Jusinskas

Description

Previous attempts to determine the worldsheet origin of the pure spinor formalism were not completely successful, but introduced important concepts that seem to be connected to its fundamental structure. I will present here a new proposal for the underlying gauge theory of the pure spinor superstring, based on an extension of Berkovits' twistor-like constraint. I will start with a quick review of previous approaches and then proceed to the BRST quantization of the new model. I will show that, after a field redefinition, spacetime supersymmetry emerges and the resulting action describes the pure spinor superstring.

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