BRST analysis of physical states for 2D gravity coupled to \(c\leqq{}1\) matter

DOI10.1007/BF02099397zbMath0765.53059arXivhep-th/9110031MaRDI QIDQ1193103

Peter Bouwknegt, Krzysztof Pilch, J. G. McCarthy

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9110031

zbMATH Keywords

Fock spaceconformal gaugeFelder's resolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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