Field theory actions for ambitwistor string and superstring
Journal of High Energy Physics
September 2018, 2018:97 | Cite as
Field theory actions for ambitwistor string and superstring
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Nathan BerkovitsMatheus Lize
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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
First Online: 17 September 2018
Received: 16 August 2018
Accepted: 12 September 2018
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Abstract
We analyze the free ambitwistor string field theory action for the bosonic string, heterotic string and both GSO sectors of the Type II string. The spectrum contains non-unitary states and provides an interesting consistency test for one-loop ambitwistor string computations.
Keywords BRST Quantization String Field Theory Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
ArXiv ePrint: 1807.07661
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Authors and Affiliations
Nathan Berkovits1Matheus Lize1Email author1.ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental ResearchInstituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual PaulistaSão PauloBrasil
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