Negative-norm string state (source code)

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= Negative-norm string state

= String ghost state
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Time-coordinate oscillators produce negative <norms> in the covariant indefinite <Fock space>. A physical negative-norm state would violate probabilistic <unitarity>. Such ghosts differ from the anticommuting <worldsheet ghost fields> introduced by <gauge fixing>.

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