The Ramond Sector of Open Superstring Field Theory

Details The Ramond Sector of Open Superstring Field Theory The Ramond Sector of Open Superstring Field Theory

2001-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0109100v1

JHEP 0111 (2001) 047

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

19 pages harvmac tex

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/047

Although the equations of motion for the Neveu-Schwarz (NS) and Ramond (R) sectors of open superstring field theory can be covariantly expressed in terms of one NS and one R string field, picture-changing problems prevent the construction of an action involving these two string fields. However, a consistent action can be constructed by dividing the NS and R states into three string fields which are real, chiral and antichiral. The open superstring field theory action includes a WZW-like term for the real field and holomorphic Chern-Simons-like terms for the chiral and antichiral fields. Different versions of the action can be constructed with either manifest d=8 Lorentz covariance or manifest N=1 d=4 super-Poincar\'e covariance. The lack of a manifestly d=10 Lorentz covariant action is related to the self-dual five-form in the Type IIB R-R sector.

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