Decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism I

Details Decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism I Decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism I

2009-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/0906.3368v2

JHEP01(2010)041

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

77 pages (51 pages + appendices), added hyperrefs

Scientific paper

10.1007/JHEP01(2010)041

This is the first of a series of two papers where decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism is investigated. The multi-loop amplitude prescription for the minimal pure spinor superstring formulated in hep-th/0406055 involves the insertion of picture changing operators in the path integral. These operators are BRST closed in a distributional sense and depend on a number of constant tensors. One can trace the origin of these insertions to gauge fixing, so the amplitudes are formally independent of the constant tensors. We show however by explicit tree-level and one-loop computations that the picture changing operators are not BRST closed inside correlators and the amplitudes do depend on these constant tensors. This is due to the fact that the gauge fixing condition implicit in the existing minimal amplitude prescription is singular and this can lead to Lorentz violation and non-decoupling of BRST exact states. As discussed in hep-th/0406055, a manifestly Lorentz invariant prescription can be obtained by integrating over the constant tensors and in the sequel to this paper, it is shown that when one includes these integrations unphysical states do decouple to all orders despite the fact that the PCO's are not BRST closed inside correlators.

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