ICTP Lectures on Covariant Quantization of the Superstring

2002/09/06 by Nathan Berkovits, Berkovits, Nathan · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0209059

43 pages harvmac

arxiv created 2002/09/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

These ICTP Trieste lecture notes review the pure spinor approach to quantizing the superstring with manifest D=10 super-Poincare invariance. The first section discusses covariant quantization of the superparticle and gives a new proof of equivalence with the Brink-Schwarz superparticle. The second section discusses the superstring in a flat background and shows how to construct vertex operators and compute tree amplitudes in a manifestly super-Poincare covariant manner. And the third section discusses quantization of the superstring in curved backgrounds which can include Ramond-Ramond flux.

Cited by

• Superstring amplitudes from the field-theory limit: an n-point map at one loop
• The 11D pure spinor ghost number zero vertex operator

Related

• Yang-Mills Theory as an Illustration of the Covariant Quantization of Superstrings
• Covariant Quantization Of Green Schwarz Superstring
• TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theory and Ramond-Ramond Flux
• GGI Lectures on the Pure Spinor Formalism of the Superstring
• Equivalence Proof of Pure Spinor and Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz Superstring Amplitudes