Mean field quantization of effective string

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2018)104MaRDI QIDQ2413719zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Y. Makeenko

Publication date 14 September 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07541

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsconformal field models in string theorylong strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: I describe the recently proposed quantization of bosonic string about the mean-field ground state, paying special attention to the differences from the usual quantization about the classical vacuum which turns out to be unstable for d>2. In particular, the string susceptibility index $gamm{a}_{mstr}$ is 1 in the usual perturbation theory, but equals 1/2 in the mean-field approximation that applies for 2<d<26. I show that the total central charge equals zero in the mean-field approximation and argue that fluctuations about the mean field do not spoil conformal invariance.

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