An action for Chan-Paton factors

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2007.08.050zbMATH Open1246.81148arXiv0708.0888OpenAlexW1987751509MaRDI QIDQ446789FDOQ446789

Authors: Florian Payen 

Publication date: 8 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that Chan-Paton factors can be derived from a classical action describing the dynamics of a new group-valued degree of freedom attached to the boundary of an open bosonic string. We discuss the free and the interacting string in the oriented and unoriented cases, as well as the coupling of the string to an external Yang-Mills gauge field, and recover by this approach well-known results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0888

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zbMATH Keywords

Chan-Paton factors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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• Adding Chan-Paton factors to Witten's string field theory

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