Some exact computations on the twisted butterfly state in string field theory

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/066zbMATH Open1243.81177arXivhep-th/0310264OpenAlexW2091000755MaRDI QIDQ438245FDOQ438245

Authors: Yuji Okawa 

Publication date: 30 July 2012

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

Abstract: The twisted butterfly state solves the equation of motion of vacuum string field theory in the singular limit. The finiteness of the energy density of the solution is an important issue, but possible conformal anomaly resulting from the twisting has prevented us from addressing this problem. We present a description of the twisted regulated butterfly state in terms of a conformal field theory with a vanishing central charge which consists of the ordinary bc ghosts and a matter system with c=26. Various quantities relevant to vacuum string field theory are computed exactly using this description. We find that the energy density of the solution can be finite in the limit, but the finiteness depends on the subleading structure of vacuum string field theory. We further argue, contrary to our previous expectation, that contributions from subleading terms in the kinetic term to the energy density can be of the same order as the contribution from the leading term which consists of the midpoint ghost insertion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310264

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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