Relating the different superstring formalisms

• Grant number: 22/04105-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2022
• Status: Discontinued
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Nathan Jacob Berkovits
• Grantee: João Pedro de Rezende Gomide
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/01343-7 - ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research: a regional center for theoretical physics, AP.ESP
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/00082-1 - Fundamental Aspects of String Theory, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Over the last 50 years, three different superstring formalisms have been developed. In 1971, Ramond and Neveu and Schwarz built a formalism with manifest Lorentz invariance but hidden spacetime supersymmetry. In 1981, Green and Schwarz built a formalism where supersymmetry is manifest but Lorentz invariance is hidden. And over the last 20 years, a third formalism involving pure spinors was developed by this supervisor where all the spacetime symmetries are manifest. The project of the student will be to relate these three formalisms. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BERKOVITS, NATHAN; CHANDIA, OSVALDO; GOMIDE, JOAO; MARTINS, LUCAS N. S.. B-RNS-GSS heterotic string in curved backgrounds. Journal of High Energy Physics, v. N/A, n. 2, p. 30-pg., 2023-02-09. (22/04105-0, 21/09003-9, 19/14061-8, 19/21281-4, 19/24277-8, 21/14335-0, 16/01343-7, 18/07834-8)