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The invariant charges of the Nambu-Goto String and Canonical Quantization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

It is shown that the algebra of diffeomorphism-invariant charges of the Nambu-Goto string cannot be quantized in the framework of canonical quantization. The argument is shown to be independent of the dimension of the underlying Minkowski space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0403108,
  title  = {The invariant charges of the Nambu-Goto String and Canonical Quantization},
  author = {Dorothea Bahns},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0403108},
  year   = {2016}
}

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v2: reference added