Strings in plane wave backgrounds reexamined

Journal Article · Sat Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.50.5232· OSTI ID:6963215

Jofre, O; Nunez, C ^[1]

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1. Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, C.C. 67, Suc. 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (Argentina) Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

String theory in an exact plane wave background is explored. The four-tachyon scattering amplitude is constructed. The spectrum of states found from the poles in the factorization turns out to be equivalent to that of the theory in flat space-time. The massless vertex operator is obtained from the residue of the first order pole. It exhibits nontrivial modifications with respect to the flat space case.

• OSTI ID: 6963215
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 50:8; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
STRING MODELS
TACHYONS
SCATTERING AMPLITUDES
QUANTUM OPERATORS
SPACE-TIME
SPECTRA
VERTEX FUNCTIONS
AMPLITUDES
COMPOSITE MODELS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FUNCTIONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS
PARTICLE MODELS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUARK MODEL
662110* - General Theory of Particles & Fields- Theory of Fields & Strings- (1992-)