Published February 8, 1988
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Journal article
Covariant canonical quantization of the Green-Schwarz superstring
Creators
- 1. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovoth (Israel). Dept. of Physics
Description
Introducing a new type of D=10 harmonic superspace with two generations of harmonic coordinates, we reduce the Green-Schwarz (GS) superstring to a system whose constraints are Lorentz covariant and functionally independent. These features allow us to impose Lorentz-covariant gauge fixing conditions for the reparametrization and the fermionic κ-invariances. The resulting QBRST corresponds to the finite-dimensional Lie algebra of the remaining purely harmonic constraints. The super-Poincare symmetry acts in a manifestly Lorentz-covariant form and is apparently anomaly free. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 297
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 349-373
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 19033779
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; COMMUTATORS; FERMIONS; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GRADED LIE GROUPS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; POINCARE GROUPS; SECOND QUANTIZATION; STRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPACE; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS