IAS Physics Group Meeting
Equivalence Proof of Pure Spinor and Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz Superstring Amplitudes
Abstract: A new manifestly spacetime-supersymmetric prescription for superstring amplitude computations is given using the pure spinor formalism which does not contain subtleties from poles in the pure spinor ghosts. This super-Poincare covariant prescription is related by a U(5)-covariant field redefinition to the Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz amplitude prescription where the pure spinor parameterizes the choice of SO(10)/U(5). For F-term scattering amplitudes which preserve a subset of the spacetime supersymmetries, the new pure spinor amplitude prescription reduces to the previous pure spinor prescription. (arXiv: 2411.19778)
Date & Time
January 29, 2025 | 11:00am – 12:15pm
Location
Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS)Speakers
Nathan Berkovits, ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP