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The Lorentz Anomaly via Operator Product Expansion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-25 v1

Abstract

The emergence of a critical dimension is one of the most striking features of string theory. One way to obtain it is by demanding closure of the Lorentz algebra in the light-cone gauge quantisation, as discovered for bosonic strings more than fourty years ago. We give a detailed derivation of this classical result based on the operator product expansion on the Lorentzian world-sheet.

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@article{arxiv.1412.6838,
  title  = {The Lorentz Anomaly via Operator Product Expansion},
  author = {Stefan Fredenhagen and Jens Hoppe and Mariusz Hynek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6838},
  year   = {2016}
}
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