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# Open BRST algebras, ghost unification and string field theory

International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
(Impact Factor: 3.93). 09/1988; 307(2):348-364. DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90326-4
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Geometrical aspects of the BRST quantization of charged antisymmetric tensor fields and string fields are studied within the framework of the Batalin and Vilkovisky method. In both cases, candidate anomalies which obey the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions are given.

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