Relation Between Batalin-vilkovisky and First Quantized Style {BRST}

Feb, 1989
13 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 4 (1989) 3705
Report number:
  • ITP-SB-89-09

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Abstract: (WSP)
We show that first-quantized-style Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin operators, such as those which occur in string field theory, are just those of the Batalin-Vilkovisky method, up to some minor modifications. Thus, string field theory can be quantized directly, without fields additional to the original one.
  • FIELD THEORY: STRING
  • QUANTIZATION: CONSTRAINT
  • OPERATOR: BECCHI-ROUET-STORA
  • FIELD THEORY: GHOST