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1、AUP-Hoogeveen:AUP/Buijn31-05-201015:42Pagina1JoostHoogeveenUvADissertationFundamentalsofthePureSpinorFormalismFacultyofScienceFundamentalsofthePureSpinorFormalismJoostHoogeveenJoostHoogeveen(1984)studiedphysicsandmathematics,initiallyattheUniversityo
2、fAmsterdam.In2004hecontinuedthesestudiesattheUniversityofCambridge.In2005hestartedhisPhDresearchattheInstituteofTheoreticalPhysicsoftheUniversityofAmsterdam.Thisthesispresentsrecentdevelopmentswithinthepurespinorformalism,whichhassimplifiedamplitudec
3、omputationsinperturbativestringtheory,especiallywhenspacetimefermionsareinvolved.Firstlytheworldsheetactionofboththeminimalandthenon-minimalpurespinorformalismisderivedfromfirstprinciples,i.e.fromanactionwithtwodimensionaldiffeomorphismandWeylinvaria
4、nce.Secondlythedecouplingofunphysicalstatesintheminimalpurespinorformalismisproved.9789056296414FundamentalsofthePureSpinorFormalismThisworkhasbeenaccomplishedattheInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics(ITFA)oftheUniversityofAmsterdam(UvA)andisfinanciallysupp
5、ortedbyaSpinozagrantoftheNetherlandsOrganisationforScientificResearch(NWO).Layout:JoostHoogeveen,typesetusingLATEXCoverdesign:Ren´eStaelenberg,AmsterdamCoverillustration:WayneRustonISBN9789056296414NUR910cJ.Hoogeveen/VossiuspersUvA-AmsterdamUniversity
6、Press,2010Allrightsreserved.Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreservedabove,nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans(electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise)witho
7、utthewrittenpermissionofboththecopyrightownerandtheauthorofthebook.FundamentalsofthePureSpinorFormalismAcademischProefschriftterverkrijgingvandegraadvandoctoraandeUniversiteitvanAmsterdamopgezagvandeRectorMagnificusprof.dr.D.C.vandenBoomtenoverstaanva
8、neendoorhetcollegevoorpromotiesingesteldecommissie,inhetopenbaarteverdedigenindeAgnietenkapelopvrijdag9juli2010,te12:00uurdoorJoostHoogeveengeborenteLeidschendamPromotiecommissiePromotorprof.dr.R.H.DijkgraafCo-Promotordr.K.SkenderisOverigeledenprof.d