The construction of the sh-Lie-algebra of closed bosonic strings (Q1189245)

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The construction of the sh-Lie-algebra of closed bosonic strings
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    The construction of the sh-Lie-algebra of closed bosonic strings (English)
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    26 September 1992
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    In 1989 \textit{M. Saadi} and \textit{B. Zwiebach} [Ann. Phys. 192, 213-227 (1989)], inspired by the work of \textit{M. Kaku} [Phys. Rev. D 38, 3052- 3066 (1988)] introduced an interaction of closed string fields along polyhedra. This was further investigated and generalized by \textit{T. Kugo, H. Kunimoto} and \textit{K. Suehiro} [Phys. Lett. 226 B, 48 (1989)]. They called it a nonpolynomial closed string field theory. They presented the theory in the operator formalism using the techniques of conformal theory and complex analysis. The nonpolynomial interaction of closed string fields should obey a gauge invariance, which was reformulated as an algebraic property. This later property was proved by Kugo and Suehiro, and for more general background fields by \textit{A. Sen} [``On the background independence of string field theory'', Preprint TIFR/TH/90-7]. It was \textit{J. Stasheff} who recognized that these algebraic relations define a strongly homotopy Lie algebra (sh-Lie-algebra) [Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 139, 165-171 (1989)]. The aim of this paper is to construct this algebra of closed string fields by using techniques of functional analysis. Also we will give an analytic proof of the sh-Lie- structure.
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    interaction of closed string fields along polyhedra
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    strongly homotopy Lie algebra
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    algebra of closed string fields
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    diffeomorphisms of the 1- sphere
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