The no-ghost theorem for string theory in curved backgrounds with a flat timelike direction.

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00495-8zbMath1060.81568arXivhep-th/0005002OpenAlexW3102646395MaRDI QIDQ5933264

Masako Asano, Makoto Natsuume

Publication date: 14 May 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0005002

zbMATH Keywords

BRST quantizationCohomologyNo-ghost theoremVanishing theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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