String-state gauge redundancy

ID: string-state-gauge-redundancy

String-state gauge redundancy by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-11-05
Changing a massless closed-string polarization by a momentum-longitudinal tensor changes the integrated vertex by a worldsheet total derivative, equivalently by a BRST-exact state. The corresponding target-space transformations are linearized diffeomorphisms and two-form gauge transformations.

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