On the picture dependence of Ramond-Ramond cohomology

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00132-1zbMath0925.53049arXivhep-th/9711087OpenAlexW3105499818MaRDI QIDQ1387255

Barton Zwiebach, Nathan Berkovits

Publication date: 2 June 1998

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711087

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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