The Dirac-Ramond operator in string theory and loop space index theorems

DOI10.1016/0920-5632(87)90110-1zbMath0957.58507OpenAlexW2025695541MaRDI QIDQ5926946

Michelangelo L. Mangano, Orlando Alvarez, Timothy P. Killingback, Paul Windey

Publication date: 8 March 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0920-5632(87)90110-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

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