Nonlocality in string theory

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/35/355402MaRDI QIDQ2921144zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gianluca Calcagni, Leonardo Modesto

Publication date 30 September 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4957

zbMATH Keywords

string theorystring field theorynonlocal theories and models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems, nonlinear semigroups, evolution equations (37L05) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We discuss an aspect of string theory which has been tackled from many different perspectives, but incompletely: the role of nonlocality in the theory and its relation to the geometric shape of the string. In particular, we will describe in quantitative terms how one can zoom out from an extended object such as the string in such a way that, at sufficiently large scales, it appears structureless. Since there are no free parameters in free-string theory, the notion of large scales will be unambiguously determined. In other words, we will be able to answer the question: How and at which scale can the string be seen as a particle? In doing so, we will employ the concept of spectral dimension in a new way with respect to its usual applications in quantum gravity. The operational notions of worldsheet and target spacetime dimension in string theory are also clarified and found to be in mutual agreement.

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