Published June 4, 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

The measure for the supermoduli

  • 1. International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)

Description

We discuss the path integral measure for the heterotic and superstring, a basic ingredient for constructing amplitudes at every loop order. We find that a ghost supercurrent, which appears in the measure coupled to the gravitino zero modes due to the mixing of diffeomorphism and supersymmetry transformations, can be reabsorbed by a ghost field redefinition when also the gravitino Weyl transformation is carefully taken into account. Thus we obtain a result where only the matter supercurrent occurs. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
191
Journal Issue
1/2
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
56-62
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA