Cohomology in the pure spinor formalism for the superstring

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 9 PART B, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BRST Quantization; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044264911     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/09/046     Document Type: Article

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