Fermionic Strings in the Operator Formalism

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Gaume, Luis Alvaraz
Gomez, Cesar
Sierra, German
Vafa, Cumrun
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We extend the operator formulation of strings to the superconformal setting. We give a realization of the supersymmetry ghosts, both in components and in a manifestly supersymmetric formalism. We give a construction for the states associated with super-Riemann surfaces of any genus with any number of punctures in the case of flat 10d spacetime, and from these states construct the measure. As an application we give a very simple, manifestly supersymmetric, derivation of super-holomorphic factorization. Finally, we discuss the “integration ambiguity” from the operator point of view.

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1988-12-01
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Nuclear Physics B
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At the time of publication, author Philip C. Nelson was affiliated with Boston University. Currently, he is a faculty member in the Physics & Astronomy Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
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