Middle-degree BRST cohomology splitting conjecture for the bosonic ambitwistor string

Let pp be a momentum, let HH be its stabiliser, and let Hn(p)\mathsf{H}^n(p) and Hreln(p)\mathsf{H}_{\mathrm{rel}}^n(p) denote the absolute and relative BRST cohomology groups at ghost number nn. Write Hrel2(p)\mathsf{H}_{\mathrm{rel}}^2(p)^* for the dual HH-module. Middle-degree BRST splitting conjecture. The short exact sequence relating Hrel2(p)\mathsf{H}_{\mathrm{rel}}^2(p), H3(p)\mathsf{H}^3(p), and Hrel3(p)\mathsf{H}_{\mathrm{rel}}^3(p) should split as an HH-module, so that

H3(p)Hrel2(p)Hrel2(p)H2(p)H2(p).\mathsf{H}^3(p) \cong \mathsf{H}_{\mathrm{rel}}^2(p) \oplus \mathsf{H}_{\mathrm{rel}}^2(p)^* \cong \mathsf{H}^2(p) \oplus \mathsf{H}^2(p)^*.

This is proposed as the non-unitary analogue of the corresponding splitting in the unitary KK-module setting. The authors state that they have no evidence beyond this naive generalisation.

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José M. Figueroa-O'Farrill and Girish S. Vishwa, “The spectrum of the bosonic ambitwistor string revisited”, arXiv:2606.05500 (2026).

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