Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-06-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
(based on talks given at SUSY '93 and at Strings '93), 6 pages plain Tex, KCL-TH-93-9
Scientific paper
By replacing two of the bosonic scalar superfields of the N=2 string with fermionic scalar superfields (which shifts $d_{critical}$ from (2,2) to (9,1)), a quadratic action for the ten-dimensional Green-Schwarz superstring is obtained. Using the usual N=2 super-Virasoro ghosts, one can construct a BRST operator, picture-changing operators, and covariant vertex operators for the Green-Schwarz superstring. Superstring scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of loops and external massless states are then calculated by evaluating correlation functions of these vertex operators on N=2 super-Riemann surfaces, and integrating over the N=2 super-moduli. These multiloop superstring amplitudes have been proven to be SO(9,1) super-Poincar\'e invariant (by constructing the super-Poincar\'e generators and writing the amplitudes in manifest SO(9,1) notation), unitary (by showing agreement with amplitudes obtained using the light-cone gauge Green-Schwarz formalism), and finite (by explicitly checking for divergences in the amplitudes when the Riemann surface degenerates). There is no multiloop ambiguity in these Green-Schwarz scattering amplitudes since spacetime-supersymmetry is manifest (there is no sum over spin structures), and therefore the moduli space can be compactified.
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