The BRST treatment of stretched membranes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
The BRST-invariant formulation of the bosonic stretched membrane is considered. In this formulation the stretched membrane is given as a perturbation around zero-tension membranes, where the BRST-charge decomposes as a sum of a string-like BRST-charge and a perturbation. It is proven, by means of cohomology techniques, that there exists to any order in perturbation theory a canonical transformation that reduces the full BRST-charge to the string-like one. It is also shown that one may extend the results to the quantum level yielding a nilpotent charge in 27 dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0511217,
title = {The BRST treatment of stretched membranes},
author = {Jonas Bjornsson and Stephen Hwang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0511217},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
21 pages, typo's corrected, minor changes in the text