Evolution of fixed-end strings and the off-shell disk amplitude

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00188-2MaRDI QIDQ5937779zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Peter Orland

Publication date 15 July 2001

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0101173

zbMATH Keywords

Liouville fieldrotational invariancestatic potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: An exact integral expression is found for the amplitude of a Bosonic string with ends separated by a fixed distance $R$ evolving over a time $T$ between arbitrary initial and final configurations. It is impossible to make a covariant subtraction of a covariant quantity which would render the amplitude non-zero. It is suggested that this fact (and not the tachyon) is responsible for the lack of a continuum limit of regularized random-surface models with target-space dimension greater than one. It appears consistent, however, to remove this quantity by hand. The static potential of Alvarez and Arvis $V(R)$ is recovered from the resulting finite amplitude for $R>R_c$. For $R<R_c$, we find $V(R)=-infty$, instead of the usual tachyonic result. A rotation-invariant expression is proposed for special cases of the off-shell disk amplitude. {it None} of the finite amplitudes discussed are Nambu or Polyakov functional integrals, except through an unphysical analytic continuation. We argue that the Liouville field does not decouple in off-shell amplitudes, even when the space-time dimension is twenty-six.

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