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Selected writings

Proving the Goddard-Thorn no-ghost theorem:

• Peter Goddard, Charles Thorn, Compatibility of the dual Pomeron with unitarity and the absence of ghosts in the dual resonance model, Phys. Lett., B 40, No. 2 (1972), 235-238 (spire:74899)

Early discussion of quantization of the string sigma-model in light-cone gauge:

• Peter Goddard, Jeffrey Goldstone, Claudio Rebbi, Charles B. Thorn, Quantum dynamics of a massless relativistic string, Nuclear Physics B 56 1 (1973) 109-135 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(73)90223-X]

Early discussion of discretized light-cone quantization:

• Charles B. Thorn, On the derivation of dual models from field theory, Physics Letters B 70 1 (1977) 85-87 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90351-3]

• Charles B. Thorn, Derivation of dual models from field theory. II, Phys. Rev. D 17 (1978) 1073 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.17.1073]

and on the issue of excluding the $P^+ = 0$-mode:

• Joel S. Rozowsky, Charles B. Thorn, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at Infinite Momentum without $P^+$ Zero-Modes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 1614-1617 [arXiv:hep-th/0003301, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1614]

On conformal quantization of Liouville theory:

• Thomas L. Curtright, Charles B. Thorn, Conformally Invariant Quantization of the Liouville Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48 (1982) 1309; Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, (1982) 1768 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1309]

Related entries

• Goddard-Thorn no-ghost theorem

• string bit model

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