Light-Cone Gauge Quantization of String Theories on AdS₃ Space

1998/12/23 by Ming Yu, Bo Zhang
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

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published as Nucl.Phys. B551 (1999) 425-449 · Latex, 23 pages, 0 figures

arxiv created 1998/12/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

Light-cone gauge quantization procedures are given, for superstring theory on AdS₃ space charged with NS-NS background, both in NSR and GS formalism. The spacetime (super)conformal algebras are constructed in terms of the transversal physical degrees of freedom. The spacetime conformal anomaly agrees with that of covariant formalism, provided that the worldsheet conformal anomaly c equals 26 or 15 for bosonic string or superstring, respectively. The spacetime (super)conformal field theory is found to correspond to orbifold construction on symmetric product space \itSym_p \calM/Z_p.

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