Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1842466 | Nuclear Physics B | 2007 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
In the second paper of this series, I obtained the twisted BRST systems and extended physical-state conditions of all twisted open and closed cË=52 strings. In this paper, I supplement the extended physical-state conditions with the explicit form of the extended (twisted) Virasoro generators of all cË=52 strings, which allows us to discuss the physical spectra of these systems. Surprisingly, all the cË=52 spectra admit an equivalent description in terms of generically-unconventional Virasoro generators at c=26. This description strongly supports our prior conjecture that the cË=52 strings are free of negative-norm states, and moreover shows that the spectra of some of the simpler cases are equivalent to those of ordinary untwisted open and closed c=26 strings.
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Authors
M.B. Halpern,