Virasoro algebra anomalies and deformations
Date
1987Source
Classical and Quantum GravityVolume
4Issue
3Pages
L67-L70Google Scholar check
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The authors relate the anomalies of string theories to the mathematical obstructions of Dirac's canonical quantisation. The cohomological features of the deformation approach to the quantisation procedure determine the topological nature of such anomalies.