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Light-cone quantization of open string as derived in Polchinski
Polchinski uses the following gauge conditions, but I don't follow this procedure of gauge fixing and quantization:
\begin{align}
X^+ = \tau, \tag{1.3.8a} \\
\partial_\sigma \gamma_{\sigma \sigma} = 0,...
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Critical dimension in quantization of p-branes
So I have what might be a fairly basic question, but my understanding that in the quantization of the the string, or the 1-brane, there are conditions on the number of spacetime dimensions to ensure ...
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