Conformal to Harmonic Gauge for Bosonic Strings
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-05-22 v2
Abstract
We consider Polyakov theory of Bosonic strings in conformal gauge which are used to study conformal anomaly. However it exhibits ghost number anomaly. We show how this anomaly can be avoided by connecting this theory to that of in background covariant harmonic gauge which is known to be free from conformal and ghost number current anomaly, by using suitably constructed finite field dependent BRST transformation.
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@article{arxiv.1810.11364,
title = {Conformal to Harmonic Gauge for Bosonic Strings},
author = {Vipul Kumar Pandey and Bhabani Prasad Mandal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11364},
year = {2019}
}
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8 Pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1805.05527