Coefficients of normal form satisfy wave equations
Equations for tetrad and spin connection
Fixingand
Fixingand
Einstein equations
Antisymmetric tensor
Equations for bispinors
Equations following from
Equations for RR bispinor following from
Modulo
we can choose the coordinates so that:
Equations for tetrad and spin connection
Fixing and
Let us study the linearized order in deviations from flat space-time. In flat space-time
. The deviation from
flatness can be written as:
where
and
are infinitesimal. We assume summation over repeated indices.
We can choose a freedom of
redefinitions
of both
and
to fix:
At this point, the only remaining freedom in redefinition of
and
is overall rescaling of
.
We fixed both
down to the diagonal
.
Fixing and
According to 〚
and
〛, we can choose:
Similarly with
:
Eqs. (43) and (44)
and similar equations with
determine
and
in terms of
and
.
Eqs. (44) and (45) guarantee the cancellation of the obstacle
in
, i.e. the one containing
.
It remains the coefficient of
(see Eq. (25)).
This will cancel by
and
, see 〚Equations following from
〛.
Let us denote:
and similar definition for
in terms of
.
This notation is useful, because for any vector
:
From
, the coefficient of
:
Equivalently:
Eq. (46) is zero torsion of the “average” (i.e. left plus right)
connection.
Einstein equations
Let us denote:
Then Eq. (46) implies the existence of
such that:
Infinitesimal coordinate redefinition
, followed a compensating rotation
of
and
in order to preserve Eq. (41), corresponds to:
The overall rescaling
corresponds to:
From
and
follows that
and
both satisfy
Maxwell equations:
Considering the scalar part, we conclude that
satisfies the Maxwell equations:
and
satisfies:
It follows from the symmetry
that exists
such that
. Therefore:
and therefore
can be gauged away:
fixing the overall rescaling gauge symmetry of Eq. (49).
Antisymmetric tensor
Eq. (47) implies, after total symmetrization:
Therefore
is antisymmetric:
Eqs. (53) imply:
and, modulo a constant, divergenceless:
Then:
Equations for bispinors
Equations following from
Considering terms proportional to
and similar terms with
, we need to require that they cancel similar terms in
〚Fixing
and
〛.
This implies that modulo zero modes:
The antisymmetric tensor field
should be identified with the field strength of
the NSNS B-field:
.
Now consider the terms proportional to
:
It is cancelled by adding:
leading to the extra term:
There is a similar contribution with
. For them to cancel each other, we need:
Equations for RR bispinor following from
To get
and
we need: