The BRST quantization and the no-ghost theorem for AdS3

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 381-400

  Asano, Masako ^a   Natsuume, Makoto ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; BRST Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142176917     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/018     Document Type: Article

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