On the BV formalism of open superstring field theory in the large Hilbert space

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We construct several BV master actions for open superstring field theory in the large Hilbert space.

• First, we show that a naive use of the conventional BV approach breaks down at the third order of the antifield number expansion, although it enables us to define a simple "string antibracket" taking the Darboux form as space-time antibrackets.
• This fact implies that in the large Hilbert space, "string fields-antifields" should be reassembled to obtain master actions in a simple manner.
• We determine the assembly of the string antifields on the basis of Berkovits' constrained BV approach, and give solutions to the master equation defined by Dirac antibrackets on the constrained string field-antifield space.