Ghost systems revisited: Modified Virasoro generators and logarithmic conformal field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 431-449

  Krohn, Marco ^a   Flohr, Michael ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044432654     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/020     Document Type: Article

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