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Existence of Weyl invariant regulator for bosonic string theory
In sec $(3.4)$ Polchinksi says
It is easy to preserve the diff- and Poincare invariances in the quantum theory. For example, one may define the gauge fixed path integral using a Pauli-Villars ...
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Regularization and renomalization in the lightcone quantization of bosonic string
This question relates to this link. But I still don't understand it >_<
In Polchinski's string theory vol I, p. 22, there is a divergence term (when $\epsilon \rightarrow 0$) in the zero point ...