2002/11/11 by P. A. Grassi, Grassi, P. A., G. Policastro +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0211095
Harvmac, 21 pp. To appear in the proceedings of the Third Sacharov Conference, Moscow 2002
arxiv created 2002/11/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We present a new approach to the quantization of the superstring. After a brief review of the classical Green-Schwarz formulation for the superstring and Berkovits' approach to its quantization based on pure spinors, we discuss our formulation without pure spinor constraints. In order to illustrate the ideas on which our work is based, we apply them to pure Yang-Mills theory. In the appendices, we include some background material for the Green-Schwarz and Berkovits formulations, in order that this presentation be self contained.