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Formulation of the problem
Subspaces associated to a pair of pure spinors
Construction of

Action of diffeomorphisms

Formulation of the problem

Let be the BV Hamiltonian generating the left shift by elements of ; if is any function of , then:

(42)

The , and are defined similarly. In particular:

(43)

With these notations, when and are two even elements of ,

(Even elements are generators of and , and also the generators of and multiplied by a Grassmann odd parameter.)

The infinitesimal action of diffeomorphisms is generated by the following BV Hamiltonian :

(44)

In this section we will construct such that:

It is very easy to construct such if we don’t care about the global symmetries of . (Something like .) But we will construct a invariant under the supersymmetries of , i.e. invariant under the right shifts of . We believe that such an invariant construction has better chance of satisfying the equivariance conditions of Mikhailov:2016myt,Mikhailov:2016rkp at the quantum level, because supersymmetries restrict quantum corrections. In particular, the equivariance condition must require that the correspond, in some sense, to a primary operator.

Comment on gauge transformations

In this Section we discuss vector fields on the factorspace defined by Eq. (24). They are the same as -invariant vector fields on modulo -invariant vertical vector fields. All the formulas here are modulo vertical -invariant vector fields.

Subspaces associated to a pair of pure spinors

We use the notations of Section Subspaces of associated to pure spinors. For and , let denote the map:

(Notations of Sec The projector; this is a direct sum of two completely independent linear maps.) For a pair we decompose

For example, denotes the component of which belongs to ; the label “split” is because we could not invent any better notation.

:

where we must use a special representative of the cokernel:

Similarly, any (assumed to be both TL and STL) can be decomposed:

Explicitly:

Construction of

The generating function of the infinitesimal worldsheet diffeomorphisms (= vector fields) , given by Eq. (44), is BV-exact:

(45)

(46)

The coefficients and satisfy:

Eq. (45) follows from:

Some useful identities

Notice that we have in denominators. At the same time: