2012

Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator

Kroyter, Michael, Okawa, Yuji, Schnabl, Martin et al.

Understand

The WZW form of open superstring field theory has linearized gauge invariances associated with the BRST operator Q and the zero mode eta_0 of the picture minus-one fermionic superconformal ghost.

We discuss gauge fixing of the free theory in a simple class of gauges using the Faddeev-Popov method.
We find that the world-sheet ghost number of ghost and antighost string fields ranges over all integers, except one, and at any fixed ghost number, only a finite number of picture numbers appear.
We calculate the propagators in a variety of gauges and determine the field-antifield content and the free master action in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism.

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