The effective theory of strings

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-1955-7MaRDI QIDQ2450871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dorothea Bahns, Katarzyna Rejzner, Jochen Zahn

Publication date 23 May 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6263, https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/98469/1/1204.6263v5.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Batalin-Vilkovisky formalismNambu-Goto actionperturbative algebraic QFTquantization in any dimensionstring 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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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.

Review text

The starting point of string theory was a model described by the Nambu-Goto action. Even though this action has a physical interpretation as the area of the string world sheet, its quantization turned out to be awkward in the past. As it turned out later, the bosonic strings in a given ambient target space can be consistently quantized when its dimension is 26. The present article shows that the Nambu-Goto string can be quantized in any dimension of the target space as an effective theory, although there have been indications in the past that there exist quantization schemes which do not require the dimension of the ambient space to be fixed. Here the authors use tools from perturbative algebraic QFT, also tools from curved space-time and the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. Whether there is a correspondence between the Lüscher-Weisz string theory and the present model remains an open question. The present model may also be related to the effective string theory of Polchinski and Strominger, but in the present approach, in contrast to Pohlmeyer's approach, the observables are compactly supported and local.

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