Published February 15, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

New geometrical insight into the anomalies in string theory

  • 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

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
49
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 2129-2132.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ