The BRST treatment of stretched membranes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.12.004zbMATH Open1109.81078arXivhep-th/0511217OpenAlexW1966674167MaRDI QIDQ877353FDOQ877353

Stephen Hwang, Jonas Björnsson

Publication date: 20 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The BRST-invariant formulation of the bosonic stretched membrane is considered. In this formulation the stretched membrane is given as a perturbation around zero-tension membranes, where the BRST-charge decomposes as a sum of a string-like BRST-charge and a perturbation. It is proven, by means of cohomology techniques, that there exists to any order in perturbation theory a canonical transformation that reduces the full BRST-charge to the string-like one. It is also shown that one may extend the results to the quantum level yielding a nilpotent charge in 27 dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511217

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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