On the No-Ghost Theorem in String Theory

DOI10.1143/PTP.116.601MaRDI QIDQ3421319zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kazuyuki Furuuchi, Nobuyuki Ohta

Publication date 12 February 2007

Published in Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607105

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We give a simple proof of the no-ghost theorem in the critical bosonic string theory by using a similarity transformation.

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