New insight into BRST anomalies in superstring theory

Details New insight into BRST anomalies in superstring theory New insight into BRST anomalies in superstring theory

1994-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9402108v1

Nucl.Phys. B425 (1994) 289-318

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

29 pages, PHYZZX

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(94)90182-1

Based on the extended BRST formalism of Batalin, Fradkin and Vilkovisky, we perform a general algebraic analysis of the BRST anomalies in superstring theory of Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond. Consistency conditions on the BRST anomalies are completely solved. The genuine super-Virasoro anomaly is identified with the essentially unique solution to the consistency condition without any reference to a particular gauge for the 2D supergravity fields. In a configuration space where metric and gravitino fields are properly constructed, general form of the super-Weyl anomaly is obtained from the super-Virasoro anomaly as its descendant. We give a novel local action of super-Liouville type, which plays a role of Wess-Zumino-Witten term shifting the super-Virasoro anomaly into the super-Weyl anomaly. These results reveal a hierarchial relationship in the BRST anoamlies.

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