TWISTED OPEN STRINGS FROM CLOSED STRINGS: THE WZW ORIENTATION ORBIFOLDS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04018531zbMATH Open1080.81588arXivhep-th/0306014OpenAlexW3125576402MaRDI QIDQ3370275FDOQ3370275

Authors: C. Helfgott, M. B. Halpern 

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Including {it world-sheet orientation-reversing automorphisms} $hat{h}_{sigma}in{H}_{-}$ in the orbifold program, we construct the operator algebras and twisted KZ systems of the general WZW {it orientation orbifold} $A_g(H_{-})/H_{-}$. We find that the orientation-orbifold sectors corresponding to each $hat{h}_{sigma}in{H}_{-}$ are {it twisted open} WZW strings, whose properties are quite distinct from conventional open-string orientifold sectors. As simple illustrations, we also discuss the classical (high-level) limit of our construction and free-boson examples on abelian $g$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306014

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryorbifoldsstring theory

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) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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