A non-trivial zero length limit of the Nambu-Goto string

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.12.009zbMATH Open1372.81133arXiv1407.7111OpenAlexW2064576396MaRDI QIDQ2410285FDOQ2410285

Authors: Matej Pavšič 

Publication date: 17 October 2017

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

Abstract: We show that a Nambu-Goto string has a nontrivial zero length limit which corresponds to a massless particle with extrinsic curvature. The system has the set of six first class constraints, which restrict the phase space variables so that the spin vanishes. Upon quantization, we obtain six conditions on the state, which can be represented as a wave function of position coordinates, $x^{m}u$, and velocities, $q^{m}u$. We have found a wave function $psi(x,q)$ that turns out to be a general solution of the corresponding system of six differential equations, if the dimensionality of spacetime is eight. Though classically the system is just a point particle with vanishing extrinsic curvature and spin, the quantized system is not trivial, because it is consistent in eight, but not in arbitrary, dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7111

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) 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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• Point particle with extrinsic curvature as a boundary of a Nambu-Goto string: classical and quantum model

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