Published February 15, 1994
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Journal article
New geometrical insight into the anomalies in string theory
Creators
- 1. Institute of High Energy Physics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 918 (4) Beijing 100039 (China)
- 2. China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Laboratory), P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080 (China)
- 3. Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 (China)
Description
We apply the method of coadjoint orbits to evaluate the nonvanishing square of the BRST charge and the central extension of the Virasoro algebra from the Weyl anomaly, which is based on the basic equation satisfied by the BRST operator on a coadjoint orbit associated with string theory
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 49
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 2129-2132.
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 25045541
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMMUTATION RELATIONS; CURRENT ALGEBRA; FIELD THEORIES; GEOMETRY; LIE GROUPS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; STRING MODELS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY GROUPS