Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We show that the radial sector of a Carroll-Weyl gauged null string in Poincaré $\mathrm{AdS}_D$ is locally trivial in BRST cohomology. In a quotient-adapted BFV basis, the radial coordinate, its conjugate momentum, and the associated ghosts form a contractible quartet. An explicit contracting homotopy extends this reduction to the full algebra of local spatial jets, leaving precisely the $(D-1)$-dimensional ILST BRST complex. The same quartet carries zero net Virasoro central charge, so that the anomaly condition of the parent theory, $D=27$, descends to the ILST condition $d=26$.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Duary, Sarthak, Maji, Sourav
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7220974401