Developing the covariant Batalin-Vilkovisky approach to string theory

DOI10.1006/APHY.1994.1006zbMATH Open0784.53054arXivhep-th/9301097OpenAlexW3124228461MaRDI QIDQ1311482FDOQ1311482

Authors: Hiroyuki Hata, Barton Zwiebach 

Publication date: 19 January 1994

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

Abstract: We investigate the variation of the string field action under changes of the string field vertices giving rise to different decompositions of the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. We establish that any such change in the string action arises from a field transformation canonical with respect to the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) antibracket, and find the explicit form of the generator of the infinitesimal transformations. Two theories using different decompositions of moduli space are shown to yield the same gauge fixed action upon use of different gauge fixing conditions. We also elaborate on recent work on the covariant BV formalism, and emphasize the necessity of a measure in the space of two dimensional field theories in order to extend a recent analysis of background independence to quantum string field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9301097

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zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimal transformationstwo-dimensional field theoriesquantum string field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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