Towards covariant quantization of superstrings without pure spinor constraints

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1215-1243

  Grassi, Pietro Antonio ^a   Van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter ^a   Policastro, Giuseppe ^b   Porrati, Massimo ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BRST Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Space Time Symmetries; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242324476     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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