Open strings on the Rindler horizon

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2019)126zbMATH Open1409.83197arXiv1810.11912WikidataQ128596237 ScholiaQ128596237MaRDI QIDQ667206FDOQ667206

Authors: Edward Witten 

Publication date: 12 March 2019

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

Abstract: It has been proposed that a certain Z_N orbifold, analytically continued in N, can be used to describe the thermodynamics of Rindler space in string theory. In this paper, we attempt to implement this idea for the open-string sector. The most interesting result is that, although the orbifold is tachyonic for positive integer N, the tachyon seems to disappear after analytic continuation to the region that is appropriate for computing $mathrmTrh{o}^{mathcalN}$, where $ho$ is the density matrix of Rindler space and Re $mathcalN$>1. Analytic continuation of the full orbifold conformal field theory remains a challenge, but we find some evidence that if such analytic continuation is possible, the resulting theory is a logarithmic conformal field theory, necessarily nonunitary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11912

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zbMATH Keywords

black holes in string theorysuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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