Mapping between Witten and lightcone string field theories
Result description
We propose a transformation between the off-shell field variables of Witten's open bosonic string field theory and the traditional lightcone string field theory of Kaku and Kikkawa, based on Mandelstam's interacting string picture. This is accomplished by deforming the Witten vertex into lightcone cubic and quartic vertices, followed by integrating out the ghost and lightcone oscillator excitations from the string field. Surprisingly, the last step does not alter the cubic and quartic interactions and does not generate effective vertices, and leads precisely to Kaku and Kikkawa's lightcone string field theory.
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The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
Alternative codes found
RIV/68378271:_____/21:00552585 RIV/67985840:_____/21:00549318
Result on the web
https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=pUB~6Kp5-J
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mapping between Witten and lightcone string field theories
Original language description
We propose a transformation between the off-shell field variables of Witten's open bosonic string field theory and the traditional lightcone string field theory of Kaku and Kikkawa, based on Mandelstam's interacting string picture. This is accomplished by deforming the Witten vertex into lightcone cubic and quartic vertices, followed by integrating out the ghost and lightcone oscillator excitations from the string field. Surprisingly, the last step does not alter the cubic and quartic interactions and does not generate effective vertices, and leads precisely to Kaku and Kikkawa's lightcone string field theory.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
Jimp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10300 - Physical sciences
Result continuities
Project
GX19-28628X: Homotopy and Homology Methods and Tools Related to Mathematical Physics
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of High Energy Physics [online]
ISSN
1029-8479
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2021
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
73
Pages from-to
208
UT code for WoS article
000723081600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85120089449
Basic information
Result type
Jimp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
OECD FORD
Physical sciences
Year of implementation
2021