Equivalence of the self-dual and Nambu-Goto strings

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2011)070MaRDI QIDQ469232zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Winston J. Fairbairn, K. Noui, Francesco Sardelli

Publication date 10 November 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5073

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsgauge symmetrymodels of quantum gravity

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) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We establish explicitely the relation between the algebraic and Nambu-Goto strings when the target space is a four dimensional flat space. We find that the two theories are exactly equivalent only when the algebraic string is restricted to the self-dual or anti self-dual sectors. In its Hamiltonian formulation, the algebraic string defines a constrained system with first and second class constraints. In the self-dual case, we exhibit the appropriate set of second class constraints such that the resulting physical phase space is formulated in the same way as it is in the standard Nambu-Goto string. We conclude with a discussion on alternative quantisation schemes.

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