Published December 6, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Covariant one-loop amplitudes in D=11

  • 1. Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 (United States)
  • 2. C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3840 (United States) and DISTA, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Piazza Ambrosoli, I-15100 Alessandria (Italy)
  • 3. CEA/DSM/SPhT, URA au CNRS, CEA/Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)

Description

We generalize to the eleven-dimensional superparticle Berkovits' prescription for loop computations in the pure spinor approach to covariant quantization of the superstring. Using these ten- and eleven-dimensional results, we compute covariantly the following one-loop amplitudes: C-bar X8 in M-theory; B-bar X8 in type II string theory and F4 in type I. We also verify the consistency of the formalism in eleven dimensions by recovering the correct classical action from tree-level amplitudes. As the superparticle is only a first approximation to the supermembrane, we comment on the possibility of extending this construction to the latter. Finally, we elaborate on the relationship between the present BRST language and the spinorial cohomology approach to corrections of the effective action

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.09.024;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0408171v3;
PII
S0550-3213(04)00730-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
702
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 269-306
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.