World-sheet anomalies and loop geometry

Quantum geometry of bosonic strings

A. M. Polyakov · Physics Letters B · 1981 · 3.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Mathematical Physics +12

Anomaly cancellations in supersymmetric D = 10 gauge theory and superstring theory

Michael Green, John H. Schwarz · Physics Letters B · 1984 · 2.9K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Cosmology +11

Supersymmetry and Morse theory

Edward Witten · Journal of Differential Geometry · 1982 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +12

Heterotic string theory (I). The free heterotic string

David J. Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil J. Martinec et al. · Nuclear Physics B · 1985 · 1.3K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Mathematical Physics +9

An SU(2) anomaly

Edward Witten · Physics Letters B · 1982 · 1K citations