Itô's stochastic calculus and the bosonic string

Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields - Tập 44 - Trang 325-329 - 1989
R. F. Picken1, J. N. Webb1
1Grupo Teórico das Altas Energias, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

Tóm tắt

Itô's stochastic calculus is used to derive the critical dimension for the bosonic string. An anomaly in the ghost-number current, related to the Riemann-Roch theorem, is also derived.

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