Published February 15, 1991 | Version v1
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BRST light-cone quantization of the bosonic string Lagrangian

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 (USA)

Description

The quantized theory of the bosonic string is formulated in a Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin- (BRST-)invariant manner by fixing the light-cone gauge in Polyakov's Lagrangian. The BRST charge involved in the light-cone gauge is computed using the conformal-invariance principle. Finally it is shown that the conformal anomaly associated with this new gauge fixing cancels at dimensions of space-time equal to 26

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1254-1261
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
22061475
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSONS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; GAUGE INVARIANCE; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIGHT CONE; METRICS; QUANTIZATION; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS; TENSORS
Descriptors DEC
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS