Canonical analysis of algebraic string actions

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)045zbMATH Open1269.83031arXiv0908.0953WikidataQ59251791 ScholiaQ59251791MaRDI QIDQ359207FDOQ359207

K. Noui, Winston J. Fairbairn, Francesco Sardelli

Publication date: 9 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the canonical aspects of the algebraic first order formulation of strings introduced two decades ago by Balachandran and collaborators. We slightly enlarge the Lagrangian framework and show the existence of a self-dual formulation and of an Immirzi-type parameter reminiscent of four-dimensional first order gravity. We perform a full Hamiltonian analysis of the self-dual case: we extract the first class constraints and construct the Dirac bracket associated to the second class constraints. The first class constraints contain the diffeomorphisms algebra on the world-sheet, and the coordinates are shown to be non-commutative with respect to the Dirac bracket. The Hamilton equations in a particular gauge are shown to reproduce the wave equation for the string coordinates. In the general, non-self-dual case, we also explicit the first class constraints of the system and show that, unlike the self-dual formulation, the theory admits an extra propagating degree of freedom than the two degrees of freedom of conventional string theory. This prevents the general algebraic string from being strictly equivalent to the Nambu-Goto string.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0953

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitybosonic stringsmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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