θ-Expansion and light-cone gauge fixing in curved superspace σ-models

1987 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Atick ◽  
Avinash Dhar
Keyword(s):  
Light Cone ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Gauge Fixing

LIGHT-FRONT HAMILTONIAN AND PATH INTEGRAL QUANTIZATION OF VECTOR SCHWINGER MODEL WITH A PHOTON MASS TERM

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (27) ◽  
pp. 1250157 ◽  
Author(s):  
USHA KULSHRESHTHA
Keyword(s):  
Path Integral ◽  
Light Cone ◽  
Mass Term ◽  
Light Front ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Schwinger Model ◽  
Path Integral Quantization ◽  
New Class ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Form Theory

Vector Schwinger model with a mass term for the photon, describing 2D electrodynamics with massless fermions, studied by us recently [U. Kulshreshtha, Mod. Phys. Lett. A22, 2993 (2007); U. Kulshreshtha and D. S. Kulshreshtha, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A22, 6183 (2007); U. Kulshreshtha, PoS LC2008, 008 (2008)], represents a new class of models. This theory becomes gauge-invariant when studied on the light-front. This is in contrast to the instant-form theory which is gauge-non-invariant. In this work, we study the light-front Hamiltonian and path integral quantization of this theory under appropriate light-cone gauge-fixing. The discretized light-cone quantization of the theory where we wish to make contact with the experimentally observational aspects of the theory would be presented in a separate paper.

scholarly journals D = 2 STRING THEORY IN TARGET SPACE/WORLDSHEET LIGHT-CONE GAUGE

1994 ◽  
Vol 09 (33) ◽  
pp. 3041-3051
Author(s):  
A. P. ZUBAREV
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Light Cone ◽  
Target Space ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Physical Spectrum ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Linear Dilaton ◽  
Matter Fields

The D = 2 free string in the linear dilaton background is considered in the so-called target space/worldsheet light-cone gauge X+ = 0, g++ = 0, g+− = 1. After gauge-fixing, the theory has the residual Virasoro and U(1) current symmetries. The physical spectrum related to the SL 2-invariant vacuum is found to be trivial. We find that the theory has a non-trivial spectrum if the states in different nonequivalent representations ("pictures") of CFT algebra of matter fields are considered.

scholarly journals Green-Schwarz and pure spinor formulations of chiral strings

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Guillen
Keyword(s):  
Light Cone ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Vertex Operators ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Pure Spinor ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Gauge Fixing

Abstract Bosonic and RNS chiral strings have been defined from a singular gauge fixing of the respective Polyakov and spinning string actions, enforcing, among other things, the finite nature of their physical spectra. Except for the heterotic case, the tensionless limits of such chiral models have been shown to describe the same field theories predicted by their ambitwistor analogues. In this paper, we study the Green-Schwarz formulation for Type II and heterotic superstrings in a singular gauge. After performing a light-cone gauge analysis, their physical spectra are shown to match those of RNS chiral strings, and their respective tensionless limits are found to describe the same field theories predicted by RNS ambitwistor strings. Their pure spinor counterparts are then introduced by making use of the Oda-Tonin method. In doing so, symmetries hidden in the pure spinor ambitwistor string action become manifest, proposals motivating the sectorized pure spinor BRST charges find simple grounds, and integrated vertex operators emerge naturally.

scholarly journals Flat self-dual gravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirill Krasnov ◽  
Evgeny Skvortsov
Keyword(s):  
Light Cone ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Kinetic Term ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Covariant Action ◽  
Chiral Interaction ◽  
Double Copy

Abstract We construct a new covariant action for “flat” self-dual gravity in four space-time dimensions. The action has just one term, but when expanded around an appropriate background gives rise to a kinetic term and a cubic interaction. Upon imposing the light-cone gauge, the action reproduces the expected chiral interaction of Siegel. The new action is in many ways analogous to the known covariant action for self-dual Yang-Mills theory. There is also a sense in which the new self-dual gravity action exhibits the double copy of self-dual Yang-Mills structure.

TOPOLOGICAL CONFORMAL ALGEBRA IN POLYAKOV’S LIGHT-CONE GAUGE GRAVITY

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (35) ◽  
pp. 3291-3302 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIYONORI YAMADA
Keyword(s):  
Light Cone ◽  
Matter Field ◽  
Conformal Algebra ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Topological Algebras ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Brst Cohomology ◽  
Dimensional Gravity ◽  
Conformal Gauge ◽  
Gauge Gravity

We show that the two-dimensional gravity coupled to c=−2 matter field in Polyakov’s light-cone gauge has a twisted N=2 superconformal algebra. We also show that the BRST cohomology in the light-cone gauge actually coincides with that in the conformal gauge. Based on this observation the relations between the topological algebras are discussed.

EQUIVALENCE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAVITIES

1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (16) ◽  
pp. 1251-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
NOUREDDINE MOHAMMEDI
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Explicit Solution ◽  
Light Cone ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Induced Gravity ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Dimensional Gravity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chern Simons

We find the relationship between the Jackiw-Teitelboim model of two-dimensional gravity and the SL (2, R) induced gravity. These are shown to be related to a two-dimensional gauge theory obtained by dimensionally reducing the Chern-Simons action of the 2+1 dimensional gravity. We present an explicit solution to the equations of motion of the auxiliary field of the Jackiw-Teitelboim model in the light-cone gauge. A renormalization of the cosmological constant is also given.

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