String center of mass operator and its effect on BRST cohomology

DOI10.1007/BF02885675zbMath0896.47054arXivhep-th/9511111OpenAlexW1978203258MaRDI QIDQ1360571

Alexander Belopolsky, Alexander Astashkevich

Publication date: 24 September 1998

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511111

zbMATH Keywords

semi-relative cohomologyclosed bosonic stringsflat background space-timestring center of mass operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

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