2014

NS-NS Sector of Closed Superstring Field Theory

Erler, Theodore, Konopka, Sebastian, Sachs, Ivo

Understand

We give a construction for a general class of vertices in superstring field theory which include integration over bosonic moduli as well as the required picture changing insertions.

We apply this procedure to find a covariant action for the NS-NS sector of Type II closed superstring field theory.

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