Physical States in the W3 String
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چکیده
We present a review of some of the recent developments in the study of the W 3 string. One of the interesting features of the theory is that the physical spectrum includes states with non-standard ghost structure, such as excitations of the ghost fields, both for discrete-momentum and continuous-momentum states.
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