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@article{citeulike:4251287, abstract = {After reviewing the Green-Schwarz superstring using the approach of Siegel, the superstring is covariantly quantized by constructing a BRST operator from the fermionic constraints and a bosonic pure spinor ghost variable. Physical massless vertex operators are constructed and, for the first time, N-point tree amplitudes are computed in a manifestly ten-dimensional super-Poincar\'e covariant manner. Quantization can be generalized to curved supergravity backgrounds and the vertex operator for fluctuations around \$AdS\_5\times S^5\$ is explicitly constructed. This review is written in a self-contained manner and is based on talks given at the Fradkin Memorial Conference and Strings 2000.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Berkovits, Nathan}, citeulike-article-id = {4251287}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008145}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0008145}, day = {28}, eprint = {hep-th/0008145}, keywords = {amplitude, covariant, green-schwarz, kappa-symmetry, pure-spinor, string-theory, superstring}, month = {Aug}, posted-at = {2009-03-31 23:45:25}, priority = {0}, title = {Covariant Quantization of the Superstring}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008145}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4251287 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4251287 N2 - After reviewing the Green-Schwarz superstring using the approach of Siegel, the superstring is covariantly quantized by constructing a BRST operator from the fermionic constraints and a bosonic pure spinor ghost variable. Physical massless vertex operators are constructed and, for the first time, N-point tree amplitudes are computed in a manifestly ten-dimensional super-Poincar\'e covariant manner. Quantization can be generalized to curved supergravity backgrounds and the vertex operator for fluctuations around $AdS_5\times S^5$ is explicitly constructed. This review is written in a self-contained manner and is based on talks given at the Fradkin Memorial Conference and Strings 2000. TI - Covariant Quantization of the Superstring KW - amplitude KW - covariant KW - green-schwarz KW - kappa-symmetry KW - pure-spinor KW - string-theory KW - superstring AU - Berkovits, Nathan PY - 2000/Aug/28/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008145 ER -