Published November 15, 1987
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Journal article
Bosonic strings in an arbitrary dimension
Description
A procedure that leads to a conformally invariant bosonic string theory in an arbitrary number of dimensions is described. Unlike in Polyakov's formulation, the resulting theory does not contain an additional degree of freedom. Vertex operators are constructed and the spectrum is computed. The theory is Lorentz invariant, reducing to the standard string theory in 26 dimensions. It is argued that unitarity is satisfied at the one-loop level
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 36
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3281-3284
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19037624
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOSONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; STRING MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRODYNAMICS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY