Comments on BRST quantization of strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-20

  Craps, Ben ^a   Skenderis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; BRST Quantization; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444456354     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/001     Document Type: Review

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