Asymptotic symmetry groups and operator algebras

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DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2013)135zbMATH Open1342.83091arXiv1307.3423MaRDI QIDQ737571FDOQ737571

Jan Troost, Waldemar Schulgin

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: We associate vertex operators to space-time diffeomorphisms in flat space string theory, and compute their algebra, which is a diffeomorphism algebra with higher derivative corrections. As an application, we realize the asymptotic symmetry group BMS3 of three-dimensional flat space in terms of vertex operators on the string worldsheet. This provides an embedding of the BMS3 algebra in a consistent theory of quantum gravity. Higher derivative corrections vanish asymptotically. An appendix is dedicated to alpha prime corrected algebras in conformal field theory and string theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3423




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