String Theory and Quantum Spin Networks

arXivhep-th/0307141MaRDI QIDQ6467643FDOQ6467643

Publication date: 15 July 2003

Abstract: We propose an approach to formulating string theory in a curved spacetime, which is based on the connection between the states of the WZW model for the isometry group of a background spacetime metric and the representations of the corresponding quantum group. In this approach the string states scattering amplitudes are defined by certain evaluations of the theta spin networks for the associated quantum group. We examine the evaluations given by the spin network invariants defined by the spin foam state sum model associated to the two-dimensional BF theory for the background isometry group. We show that the corresponding string amplitudes are well defined if the spacetime manifold is compact and admits a group metric. We compute the simplest scattering amplitudes in the case of the SU(2) background isometry group, and we provide arguments that these are the amplitudes of a topological string theory.

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