Physical states at the tachyonic vacuum of open string field theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2003.10.037zbMATH Open1097.81715arXivhep-th/0309164OpenAlexW2070733405MaRDI QIDQ1418079FDOQ1418079

Authors: Stefano Giusto, C. Imbimbo 

Publication date: 6 January 2004

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

Abstract: We illustrate a method for computing the number of physical states of open string theory at the stable tachyonic vacuum in level truncation approximation. The method is based on the analysis of the gauge-fixed open string field theory quadratic action that includes Fadeev-Popov ghost string fields. Computations up to level 9 in the scalar sector are consistent with Sen's conjecture about the absence of physical open string states at the tachyonic vacuum. We also derive a long exact cohomology sequence that relates relative and absolute cohomologies of the BRS operator at the non-perturbative vacuum. We use this exact result in conjunction with our numerical findings to conclude that the higher ghost number non-perturbative BRS cohomologies are non-empty.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0309164

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zbMATH Keywords

BRS operatorgauge-fixed quadratic actionlevel truncation approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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