Pure spinor partition function and the massive superstring spectrum

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Aisaka, Yuri ^a   Arroyo, E Aldo ^a   Berkovits, Nathan ^a   Nekrasov, Nikita ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

BRST symmetry; Conformal field models in string theory; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749088256     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/050     Document Type: Article

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