Relating the Green-Schwarz and pure spinor formalisms for the superstring

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2005, Pages 365-379

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a   Marchioro, Dáfni Z ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BRST Symmetry; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344433170     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/01/018     Document Type: Article

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