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We study the coupling of the non-minimal ghost fields of the pure spinor superstring in general curved backgrounds. The coupling is found solving the consistency relations from the nilpotency of the non-minimal BRST charge.
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Chandia, O., Vallilo, B.C. Non-minimal fields of the pure spinor string in general curved backgrounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 92 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)092
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