A note on conserved worldsheet supercharges in heterotic pure spinor superstring

Abstract

We study conserved worldsheet charges associated with spacetime supersymmetry in heterotic pure-spinor superstrings on curved ten-dimensional superspace backgrounds. Requiring BRST invariance and worldsheet conservation gives a covariant set of superspace constraints. In flat superspace these conditions reproduce the standard ten-dimensional supersymmetry generator. In curved superspace, they organize the requirements for global supersymmetry in terms of a normalizable spinor superfield.

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