Light-cone gauge quantization of 2D sigma models.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90270-4MaRDI QIDQ1967524zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert E. Rudd

Publication date 6 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9402106

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: This work describes the formulation of the manifestly ghost-free (spacetime) light-cone gauge for bosonic string theory with non-trivial spacetime metric, antisymmetric tensor, dilaton and tachyon fields. The action is a general two-dimensional sigma model, corresponding to a closed string theory with a second order action in the Polyakov picture. The spacetime fields must have a symmetry generated by a null, covariantly constant spacetime vector in order for the light-cone gauge to be accessible. Also, the theory must be Weyl invariant. The conditions for Weyl invariance are computed within the light-cone gauge, reproducing the usual beta functions. The calculation of the dilaton beta function and the critical dimension is somewhat novel in this ghost-free theory. Some exactly solvable light-cone theories are discussed.

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