DLCQ strings and branched covers of torii

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(02)01311-7zbMATH Open1080.81584arXivhep-th/0112043MaRDI QIDQ1597299FDOQ1597299

Authors: G. W. Semenoff 

Publication date: 12 May 2002

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

Abstract: In this lecture I will review some results about the discrete light-cone quantization (DLCQ) of strings and some connections of the results with matrix string theory. I will review arguments which show that, in the path integral representation of the thermal free energy of a string, the compactifications which are necessary to obtain discrete light-cone quantization constrains the integral over all Riemann surfaces of a given genus to the set of those Riemann surfaces which are branched covers of a particular torus. I then review an explicit check of this result at genus 1. I discuss the intriguing suggestion that these branched covers of a torus are related to those which are found in a certain limit of the matrix string model

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0112043

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zbMATH Keywords

matrix string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• Two-loop string theory on null compactifications
• Thermal partition function of superstring on compactified pp-wave
• Thermal amplitudes in DLCQ superstrings on \(pp\)-waves

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