On pure spinor superfield formalism

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作者
Alexandrov, Victor [1 ]
Krotov, Dmitry
Losev, Andrei
Lysov, Vyacheslav
机构
[1] Russian Acad Sci, Div Theoret Phys, PN Lebedev Phys Inst, GSP-1,B-333, Moscow 117924, Russia
[2] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Fac Phys, Moscow 119992, Russia
[3] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[4] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, RU-117218 Moscow, Russia
[5] Russian Acad Sci, LD Landau Theoret Phys Inst, Moscow 119334, Russia
[6] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow Inst Phys & Technol, Dolgoprudnyi 141700, Russia
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BRST symmetry; string field theory; superspaces; supersymmetric gauge theory;
D O I
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/074
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We show that a certain superfield formalism can be used to find an off-shell supersymmetric description for some supersymmetric field theories where conventional superfield formalism does not work. This "new" formalism contains auxiliary variables A' in addition to conventional super-coordinates theta(alpha). The idea of this construction is similar to the pure spinor formalism developed by N.Berkovits. It is demonstrated that using this formalism it is possible to prove that the certain Chern-Simons-like (Witten's OSFTlike) theory can be considered as an off-shell version for some on-shell supersymmetric field theories. We use the simplest non-trivial model found in [2] to illustrate the power of this pure spinor superfield formalism. Then we redo all the calculations for the case of tO-dimensional Super-Yang-Mills theory. The construction of off-shell description for this theory is more subtle in comparison with the model of [2] and requires additional Z2 projection. We discover experimentally (through a direct explicit calculation) a non-trivial Z2 duality at the level of Feynman diagrams. The nature of this duality requires a better investigation.
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