Published April 28, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

BRST extension of a string propagator

  • 1. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology, London (UK). Blackett Lab.
  • 3. Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA). Dept. of Physics

Description

The natural closed string propagator within the Polyakov formalism is extended to include arbitrary ghost boundary data in both the coordinate and holomorphic representations. It is shown that the corresponding ghost-extended heat kernel yields directly the correct vacuum functional and one-loop effective action. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
205
Journal Issue
2/3
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
289-294
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant PHY-85-03653