Field theory on the world sheet: improvements and generalizations

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)071zbMATH Open1303.81142arXiv1107.5324OpenAlexW3104710395MaRDI QIDQ489571FDOQ489571

Authors: Korkut Bardakci 

Publication date: 20 January 2015

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

Abstract: This article is the continuation of a project of investigating planar phi^3 model in various dimensions. The idea is to reformulate them on the world sheet, and then to apply the classical (meanfield) approximation, with two goals: To show that the ground state of the model is a solitonic configuration on the world sheet, and the quantum fluctuations around the soliton lead to the formation of a transverse string. After a review of some of the earlier work, we introduce and discuss several generalizations and new results. In 1+2 dimensions, a rigorous upper bound on the solitonic energy is established. A phi^4 interaction is added to stabilize the original phi^3 model. In 1+3 and 1+5 dimensions, an improved treatment of the ultraviolet divergences is given. And significantly, we show that our approximation scheme can be imbedded into a systematic strong coupling expansion. Finally, the spectrum of quantum fluctuations around the soliton confirms earlier results: In 1+2 and 1+3 dimensions, a transverse string is formed on the world sheet.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5324

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zbMATH Keywords

\(1/N\) expansionbosonic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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