Fundamentals of the Pure Spinor Formalism

by Joost Hoogeveen

This thesis presents recent developments within the pure spinor formalism, which has simplified amplitude computations in perturbative string theory, especially when spacetime fermions are involved. Firstly the worldsheet action of both the minimal and the non-minimal pure spinor formalism is derived from first principles, i.e. from an action with two dimensional diffeomorphism and Weyl invariance. Secondly the decoupling of unphysical states in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9056296418
• ISBN13: 9789056296414
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Vossiuspers Uva
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"