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# Open BRST algebras, ghost unification and string field theory

Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris, France; Ergin Sezgin; International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Nuclear Physics B (Impact Factor: 4.33). 01/1988; DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90326-4
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ABSTRACT 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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