The relationship among canonical quantisation, Polyakov's functional integral and BRST quantisation of the string
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The relationship among canonical quantisation, Polyakov's functional integral and BRST quantisation of the string
zbMATH Open document ID: 0629.58042
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(87)90048-0
author: B. George
published in: Annals of Physics
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: We explore the relationship among the three covariant approaches to the first quantisation of the bosonic string by using the descent equations to calculate the central extension of the Virasoro algebra and the square of the BRST charge from the Weyl anomaly.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58Z05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 17B65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D50
zbMATH DE Number: 4024372
zbMATH Keywords: first quantisation of the bosonic string
zbMATH Keywords: Weyl anomaly
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0003-4916(87)90048-0
OpenAlex ID: W2056808089
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4024372