Phys. Rev. D 33, 1681–1691 (1986)Covariant quantization of superstrings based on Becchi-Rouet-Stora invarianceReceived 14 November 1985; published in the issue dated 15 March 1986 A manifestly covariant quantization of the superstring is presented in the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond formalism on the basis of the Becchi-Rouet-Stora (BRS) invariance principle. The critical dimension D=10 and the correct Regge intercept are shown to follow from the requirement of the nilpotency QB 2=0 of the BRS charge. A modified form of the subsidiary condition of Kugo and Ojima QB‖phys〉=0 to define the physical subspace is sufficient to demonstrate the no-ghost theorem. © 1986 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.33.1681
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.33.1681
PACS:
11.30.Pb, 11.30.Cp, 12.25.+e
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