A String Motivated Approach to the Relativistic Point Particle

DOI10.1142/S0217732303012726MaRDI QIDQ5704705zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Michael P. Tuite, Siddhartha Sen

Publication date 15 November 2005

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0308099

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Using concepts developed in string theory, Cohen, Moore, Nelson and Polchinski calculated the propagator for a relativistic point particle. Following these authors we extend the technique to include the case of closed world lines. The partition function found corresponds to the Feynmann and Schwinger proper time formalism. We also explicitly verify that the partition function is equivalent to the usual path length action partition function. As an example of a sum over closed world lines, we compute the Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian in a novel way.

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• Contact interactions between particle worldlines
• Worldline theories with towers of internal states
• Matrix mechanics of the relativistic point particle and string in Clifford space
• Propagator, sewing rules, and vacuum amplitude for the Polyakov point particle with ghosts

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