Structure of the action

The action consists of the matter term (a generic sigma-model) and some ghost terms. The ghost terms are of the form:

with the following notations:
  • and are scalars on the worldsheet taking values in the spin bundle over the target space; they satisfy the pure spinor constraints

  • and are 1-forms on the worldsheet taking values in the dual to the spin bundle over the target space; there is some gauge symmetry because and satisfy the pure spinor constraints

  • is the pairing between the conjugate to the spin bundle and the spin bundle

  • the Dolbeault operators and are explained here

Strictly speaking, instead of and one has to use the target space-covariant derivatives:

where is some connection in the target space spin bundle.

There is also some quartic term .