Index
421
Stub parameter, 317, 363
Superconformal βγ ghosts, 340
bosonization, 341
conformal weights, 340
energy–momentum tensor, 340
OPE, 340
Super-SFT, 353
Superstring, 10, 339
BRST current, 342
heterotic (-), 11, 339
Hilbert space, 343
large, 343
picture number, 344
small, 343
motivations, 10
normalization, 343
type I (-), 11
type II (-), 11
Superstring field
auxiliary field, 356
constrained Ramond field, 355
large Hilbert space, 357
Ramond field, 353
small Hilbert space, 354
Supersymmetry, 10
Surface state, 273, 287
T
Tachyon, 8
instability, 10
T-duality, 153
Teichmüller deformation, 43, 45, 46
Teichmüller space, 41
V
Verma module, 134
Vertex operator
integrated, 70
unintegrated, 78
Weyl invariance, 73
Vertex state, 305
Vertical integration, 349
Virasoro algebra, 117
Virasoro operators, 117, 129
Hermiticity, 129
W
Weyl
anomaly, 37, 53, 56
ghost, 61, 83
group volume, 43
symmetry, 32, 61
Wick rotation, 364, 372
generalized, 365, 366
Wick theorem, 135
Witt algebra, 110
Worldsheet
action
Einstein–Hilbert (-), 65
gauge-fixing (-), 83
Nambu–Goto (-), 30
Polyakov (-), 30
sigma model (-), 30
boundary conditions, 5
CFT, 5, 10
classification, 5
cosmological constant, 55
cylinder, 107
energy–momentum tensor, 34
trace, 35
Nakanishi–Lautrup auxiliary field, 83
Riemann surface, 12, 29
symmetry, 31
background diffeomorphisms, 57
background Weyl, 57
BRST, 83
diffeomorphisms, 31
Weyl, 31
Worldsheet metric, 30
Worldvolume description, 4
Z
Zamolodchikov metric, 118
Zero-mode, 376, 396
Zero-point energy, 131