Published July 30, 1987 | Version v1
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An application of the Hartle-Hawking prescription to string theory

Creators

  • 1. Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology, London (UK). Blackett Lab.
  • 2. Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA). Dept. of Physics

Description

We use the Hartle-Hawking prescription to construct the ground state wave function of the closed bosonic string in 26 dimensions including ghost contributions. We find that the prescription leads to the sl (2,C) vacuum in both the string and ghost sectors. We construct from this state the BRST invariant ground state wave functions. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
194
Journal Issue
1
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
49-53
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
19000162
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; BOSONS; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; GROUND STATES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; SL GROUPS; STRING MODELS; VACUUM STATES; WAVE FUNCTIONS
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY LEVELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant PHY-85-03653