A functional light-cone gauge construction of a bosonic string compactified on a torus

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988 · International Journal of Modern Physics A; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X88000175· OSTI ID:5248941

Bressloff, P C; Taylor, J G ^[1]; Restuccia, A ^[2]

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1. King's Coll., London (UK). Dept. of Mathematics
2. Dept. of Physics, Simon Bolivar Univ., Caracas (VE)

The closed bosonic string compactified on a torus is decomposed into two open strings corresponding to left and right movers respectively. Multiloop amplitudes are expressed as a product of a holomorphic and an anti-holomorphic function of the moduli of the world-sheet Riemann surface. Such a product is obtained by analytically continuing left and right open string amplitudes such that one is the complex conjugate of the other. A justification for this analytic continuation is provided using a second quantized field theory of strings. The extra parameters needed for complexification are shown to arise from the constraint expressing invariance under choice of origin for string parametrization. The chiral string is discussed.

• OSTI ID: 5248941
• Journal Information: International Journal of Modern Physics A; (USA), Journal Name: International Journal of Modern Physics A; (USA) Vol. 3:2; ISSN IMPAE; ISSN 0217-751X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BOSONS
CHIRAL SYMMETRY
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
COMPACT TORUS
COMPACTIFICATION
COMPOSITE MODELS
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FIELD THEORIES
GAUGE INVARIANCE
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LIGHT CONE
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATHEMATICAL SPACE
PARTICLE MODELS
QUANTIZATION
QUARK MODEL
RIEMANN SPACE
SECOND QUANTIZATION
SPACE
SPACE-TIME
STRING MODELS
SYMMETRY
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
TORI