The effective theory of strings

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-1955-7zbMATH Open1292.81107arXiv1204.6263OpenAlexW2024322919MaRDI QIDQ2450871FDOQ2450871

Authors: Dorothea Bahns, Katarzyna Rejzner, Jochen Zahn 

Publication date: 23 May 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the Nambu-Goto string, and its higher dimensional generalizations, can be quantized, in the sense of an effective theory, in any dimension of the target space. The crucial point is to consider expansions around classical string configurations. We are using tools from perturbative algebraic quantum field theory, quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, and the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. Our model has some similarities with the L"uscher-Weisz string, but we allow for arbitrary classical background string configurations and keep the diffeomorphism invariance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6263

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zbMATH Keywords

string theoryBatalin-Vilkovisky formalismNambu-Goto actionperturbative algebraic QFTquantization in any dimension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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