{"paper":{"title":"Light-Cone Analysis of the Pure Spinor Formalism for the Superstring","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"hep-th","authors_text":"Nathan Berkovits, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas","submitted_at":"2014-06-09T19:26:53Z","abstract_excerpt":"Physical states of the superstring can be described in light-cone gauge by acting with transverse bosonic $\\alpha_{-n}^{j}$ and fermionic $\\bar{q}_{-n}^{\\dot{a}}$ operators on an $SO\\left(8\\right)$-covariant superfield where $j,\\dot{a}=1$ to $8$. In the pure spinor formalism, these states are described in an $SO\\left(9,1\\right)$-covariant manner by the cohomology of the BRST charge $Q=\\frac{1}{2\\pi i}\\oint\\lambda^{\\alpha}d_{\\alpha}$. In this paper, a similarity transformation is found which simplifies the form of $Q$ and maps the light-cone description of the superstring vertices into DDF-like"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1406.2290","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}