Two-loop string theory on null compactifications

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2006.02.028zbMATH Open1214.81201arXivhep-th/0601220OpenAlexW1995044111MaRDI QIDQ879792FDOQ879792

Authors: Henry C. D. Cove, Richard J. Szabo 

Publication date: 10 May 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the two-loop contributions to the free energy in the null compactification of perturbative string theory at finite temperature. The cases of bosonic, Type II and heterotic strings are all treated. The calculation exploits an explicit reductive parametrization of the moduli space of infinite-momentum frame string worldsheets in terms of branched cover instantons. Various arithmetic and physical properties of the instanton sums are described. Applications to symmetric product orbifold conformal field theories and to the matrix string theory conjecture are also briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0601220

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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