Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-07-31
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
PhD-thesis, TU-Vienna 2007, 246 pages. Contains hyperlinks and thesis-index (This time really! Last time it got lost during up
Scientific paper
The thesis divides into three parts. The first is devoted to a careful study of very convenient superspace conventions which are a basic tool for the second part. A theorem is formulated that gives a clear statement about when the signs of a superspace calculation can be omitted. The second part describes the type II superstring using Berkovits' pure spinor formalism. The derivation of the supergravity constraints from classical BRST invariance of Berkovits and Howe is carefully reviewed and new aspects are added. The present derivation uses a covariant variation principle and stays throughout in the Lagrangian formalism. A new result is the explicit form of the BRST transformation of the worldsheet fields for type II. By further deriving the form of the local supersymmetry transformations of the fermionic fields, a connection is established to the starting point of those supergravity calculations, which derive generalized Calabi Yau conditions from effective four-dimensional supersymmetry. Generalized complex geometry is in turn the motivation for the last part, which is based on the author's paper on derived brackets from sigma models and the relation to integrability of generalized complex structures. Finally there are detailed appendices on geometric brackets, generalized complex geometry, Noether's theorem, Bianchi identities, supergauge transformations and the WZ gauge, gamma-matrices and on some aspects of structure group connections.
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