Published September 30, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Uniqueness of the gauge-invariant Fujikawa measure for the bosonic string

  • 1. Center for High Energy Astrophysics, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 2. Inst. for Theoretical Physics, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (United States)

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In this paper, the authors fix the gauges of the bosonic string by eμa- hμa = 0 with hμa a general background vielbein, choose bar X = Xhk, bar C = Chm and bar C* = C*hn as independent path-integral variables where (C*)C are the propagating parts of the coordinate (anti)ghosts and h = det hμa, and regulate the measure by general (k, m, n-dependent) consistent regulators. Background gauge independence of the measure then uniquely fixes k, m, n to the values proposed by Fujikawa. Ambiguities in the measure reported in the literature are due to using the conformal gauge and are fixed in a general background gauge

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Journal Title
International Journal of Modern Physics A
Journal Volume
6
Journal Issue
23
Series
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A.
Journal Page Range
4077-4086
ISSN
0217-751X
CODEN
IMPAE

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