Interpolating between open and closed strings -- a BSFT approach

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01966-4MaRDI QIDQ1602325zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jan Ambjørn, Romuald A. Janik

Publication date 19 June 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203185

zbMATH Keywords

boundary string field theorybulk vertex operator correlation functionstachyonic vacuum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We address the conjecture that at the tachyonic vacuum open strings get transformed into closed strings. We show that it is possible in the context of boundary string field theory to interpolate between the conventional open string theory, characterized by having the D25 brane as the boundary state, and an off-shell (open) string theory where the boundary state is identified with the closed string vacuum, where holomorphic and antiholomorphic modes decouple and where bulk vertex operator correlation functions are identical to those of the closed string.

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