Anomalous reparametrizations and butterfly states in string field theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01018-0zbMATH Open1005.81066arXivhep-th/0202139MaRDI QIDQ1852575FDOQ1852575

M. Schnabl

Publication date: 6 January 2003

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

Abstract: The reparametrization symmetries of Witten's vertex in ordinary or vacuum string field theories can be used to extract useful information about classical solutions of the equations of motion corresponding to D-branes. It follows, that the vacuum string field theory in general has to be regularized. For the regularization recently considered by Gaiotto et al., we show that the identities we derive, are so constraining, that among all surface states they uniquely select the simplest butterfly projector discovered numerically by those authors. The reparametrization symmetries are also used to give a simple proof that the butterfly states and their generalizations are indeed projectors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202139

zbMATH Keywords

regularizationsurface statesreparametrization symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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