Published February 23, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

BRST cohomology of the superstring at arbitrary ghost number

  • 1. California Univ., Santa Barbara (USA). Inst. for Theoretical Physics
  • 2. Princeton Univ., NJ (USA). Joseph Henry Labs.

Description

We investigate the cohomology of the BRST operator of the NSR superstring. No restriction is placed on the ghost number of the states. It is shown that every cohomology class can be written as a picture changed version of one of the known cohomology classes at a fixed ghost number. A generalization of this result is also found for the cohomology in the large algebra of a new bosonization of the superconformal ghosts. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
218
Journal Issue
3
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
309-314
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant PHY-85-06686; PHY-82-17853; PHY-80-19754