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In the previous chapter we added anticommuting degrees of freedom to cancel zero-point fluctuation. They transform as the vector representation of SO(d — 2). For d = 3, 4, 6, and 10 we could also choose the lowest spinor representation, since it has the same dimension as the vector one. Since SO(d — 2) is a compact group, the scalar product of two spinors is just the contracted sum as for vectors (which is the only product used in Chapter 3). We can then carry over all the work in Chapter 3.
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Brink, L., Henneaux, M. (1988). Superstrings. 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_4
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