The BRST cohomology of the NSR string: vanishing and ``no-ghost theorems

DOI10.1007/BF01218471zbMath0726.17034OpenAlexW2074799316MaRDI QIDQ802737

Takahashi Kimura, José M. Figueroa-O'Farrill

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01218471

zbMATH Keywords

representationsBRST cohomologyvanishing theoremsNeveu-Schwarz-Ramond stringsuper- Virasoro algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Superalgebras (17A70)

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