Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-01-20
JHEP 0209:051,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Changed title since the hamiltonian still needs to be regularized. Added reference to Cederwall, Nilsson and Tsimpis
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2002/09/051
By replacing ten-dimensional pure spinors with eleven-dimensional pure spinors, the formalism recently developed for covariantly quantizing the d=10 superparticle and superstring is extended to the d=11 superparticle and supermembrane. In this formalism, kappa symmetry is replaced by a BRST-like invariance using the nilpotent operator Q=int (lambda^alpha d_alpha) where d_alpha is the worldvolume variable corresponding to the d=11 spacetime supersymmetric derivative and lambda^alpha is an SO(10,1) pure spinor variable satisfying (lambda Gamma^c lambda)=0 for c=1 to 11. Super-Poincare covariant unintegrated and integrated supermembrane vertex operators are explicitly constructed which are in the cohomology of Q. After double-dimensional reduction of the eleventh dimension, these vertex operators are related to Type IIA superstring vertex operators where Q=Q_L+Q_R is the sum of the left and right-moving Type IIA BRST operators and the eleventh component of the pure spinor constraint, (lambda Gamma^{11} lambda)=0, replaces the (b_L^0 - b_R^0) constraint of the closed superstring. A conjecture is made for the computation of M-theory scattering amplitudes using these supermembrane vertex operators.
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