Abstract
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 =0 of the BRS charge. A modified form of the subsidiary condition of Kugo and Ojima ‖phys〉=0 to define the physical subspace is sufficient to demonstrate the no-ghost theorem.
- Received 14 November 1985
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.33.1681
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