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Covariant quantization of null supermembranes in four-dimensional spacetime

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Kharkov State University; Kharkov Physicotechnical Institute, Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 88, No. 3, pp. 358–375, September, 1991.

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Bandos, I.A., Zheltukhin, A.A. Covariant quantization of null supermembranes in four-dimensional spacetime. Theor Math Phys 88, 925–937 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027695

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