Generalized Gauss map and geometry of strings

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(91)90227-YMaRDI QIDQ803563zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors N. E. Zubov

Publication date 1991

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(91)90227-Y

zbMATH Keywords

extrinsic curvatureGrassmannian \(\sigma \) -modelPolyakov actionstring theoryworld sheet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Review text

The tangent planes to a Euclidean string world sheet conformally immersed in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) define a map from the Riemann surface defined by the world sheet into the Grassmannian \(G_{2,n}\) (which may be realized as a quadric \(Q_{n-2}\) in \({\mathbb{C}}P^{n-1})\). This so-called Gauss map, together with its integrability conditions, defines a constrained Grassmannian \(\sigma\)-model, if the string actions of Nambu and Goto or that of \textit{A. M. Polyakov} [Nucl. Phys. B 268, 406-412 (1986)] involving the extrinsic curvature of the world sheet are chosen. The authors argue that their formulation is more amenable to a systematic perturbation study than the one involving the string coordinates. One- loop effects of the Polyakov action are evaluated in \(n=3\) and a geometrical interpretation of the instantons of the Grassmannian \(\sigma\)-model is given in \(n=4\).

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