Published October 20, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Relation between the reducibility structures and between the master actions in the Witten formulation and the Berkovits formulation of open superstring field theory

  • 1. Nagoya International Patent Firm,20-19, Nishiki 1-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya 460-0003 (Japan)
  • 2. Quantum Hadron Physics Laboratory, RIKEN Nishina Center,Saitama 351-0198 (Japan)

Description

Developing the analysis in http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2014)044 [http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1677] by the present authors et al., we clarify the relation between the Witten formulation and the Berkovits formulation of open superstring field theory at the level of the master action, namely the solution to the classical master equation in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, which is the key for the path-integral quantization. We first scrutinize the reducibility structure, a detailed gauge structure containing the information about ghost string fields. Then, extending the condition for partial gauge fixing introduced in the above-mentioned paper to the sector of ghost string fields, we investigate the master action. We show that the reducibility structure and the master action under partial gauge fixing of the Berkovits formulation can be regarded as the regularized versions of those in the Witten formulation.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)127; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/12367; JHEP 03 (2014) 044

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2015
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 127
ISSN
1029-8479

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PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP10(2015)127; ARXIV:1507.08757; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:12367
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)