Conformal Field Theory for the Superstring in a Ramond-Ramond Plane Wave Background
Nathan Berkovits (IFT/UNESP, Sao Paulo)
TL;DR
This paper develops an exact, conformally invariant worldsheet action for superstrings in a supersymmetric plane wave background with Ramond-Ramond flux, facilitating quantization in this setting.
Contribution
It introduces a quantizable, manifestly invariant worldsheet action for superstrings in a Ramond-Ramond plane wave background, advancing string theory in such backgrounds.
Findings
Constructed an exact worldsheet conformal field theory
Ensured invariance under all background isometries
Provided a basis for superstring quantization in this setting
Abstract
A quantizable worldsheet action is constructed for the superstring in a supersymmetric plane wave background with Ramond-Ramond flux. The action is manifestly invariant under all isometries of the background and is an exact worldsheet conformal field theory.
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