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A New Approach to Superstring Field Theory

Nathan Berkovits

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I review the construction of an action for open superstring field theory which does not suffer from the contact term problems of other approaches. I also discuss a possible generalization of this action for closed superstring field theory.

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I review the construction of an action for open superstring field theory which does not suffer from the contact term problems of other approaches. I also discuss a possible generalization of this action for closed superstring field theory.

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I review the construction of an action for open superstring field theory which does not suffer from the contact term problems of other approaches. I also discuss a possible generalization of this action for closed superstring field theory.

Key concepts: Superstring theory, Green–Schwarz mechanism, Field theory (psychology), Generalization, Field (mathematics), Action (physics), Term (time), Theoretical physics

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