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The most striking feature of quantum string models is perhaps their prediction of a critical space-time dimension outside of which the quantum theory is problematical. For the bosonic model, that space-time dimension is 26.
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Brink, L., Henneaux, M. (1988). Quantization of the Nambu-Goto String. In: Principles of String Theory. Series of the Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0909-3_13
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