Spectrum-generating functions for strings and superstrings

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/21/21/009MaRDI QIDQ3804871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. J. Farmer, Ronald C. King, B. G. Wybourne

Publication date 1988

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/21/21/009

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringcharacters of irreducible representationsexpansionGreen-Schwarz superstringheterotic stringslevelmodification rulesmodular invarianceNeveu-Schwarz and Ramond stringS-function methodsSchur- functionsspectrum-generating functionsstringssuperstringstable of dimensions and number of statestheta functionstransverse spacetime symmetry group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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