nLab Nathan Berkovits

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Selected writings

On twistor string theory:

• Nathan Berkovits, An Alternative String Theory in Twistor Space for $N = 4$ Super-Yang-Mills, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 011601 (arXiv:hep-th/0402045)

On the pure spinor-formulation of the superparticle in D=11 supergravity-backgrounds:

• Nathan Berkovits, Eduardo Casali, Max Guillen, Lionel Mason, Notes on the $D=11$ pure spinor superparticle (arXiv:1905.03737)

On the relation between the NSR superstring and the pure spinor Berkovits superstring:

• Nathan Berkovits, Manifest Spacetime Supersymmetry and the Superstring (arXiv:2106.04448)

Review:

• Nathan Berkovits, Carlos R. Mafra, Pure spinor formulation of the superstring and its applications, in Handbook of Quantum Gravity (2023) [arXiv:2210.10510]

On the relation to $D=5$ holomorphic Chern-Simons theory:

• Nathan Berkovits, $D=5$ Holomorphic Chern-Simons and the Pure Spinor Superstring [arXiv:2211.06731]

and to semi-topological 4d Chern-Simons theory:

• Nathan Berkovits, Rodrigo S. Pitombo, 4D Chern-Simons and the pure spinor $AdS_5 \times S^5$ superstring [arXiv:2401.03976]

Related entries

• Berkovits superstring

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