BRST Extension of a String Propagator

Authors

D Birmingham, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science and Technology
Charles G. Torre, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Physics Letters B

Volume

205

Issue

2-3

Publication Date

1988

First Page

289

Last Page

294

Abstract

The natural closed string propagator within the Polyakov formalism is extended to include arbitrary ghost boundary data in both the coordinate and holomorphic representations. It is shown that the corresponding ghost-extended heat kernel yields directly the correct vacuum functional and one-loop effective action.

Comments

Originally published by Elsevier in Physics Letters B. Abstract available through remote link. Subscription required to access article fulltext.

Recommended Citation

Danny Birmingham, C.G. Torre, BRST extension of a string propagator, Physics Letters B, Volume 205, Issues 2-3, 28 April 1988, Pages 289-294, ISSN 0370-2693, 10.1016/0370-2693(88)91666-8.

https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(88)91666-8