Space from string bits

Abstract: We develop superstring bit models, in which the lightcone transverse coordinates in D spacetime dimensions are replaced with d=D-2 double-valued "flavor" indices

x^{k} - > f_{k} = 1, 2

;

k = 2, ..., d + 1

. In such models the string bits have no space to move. Letting each string bit be an adjoint of a "color" group U(N), we then analyze the physics of 't Hooft's limit

N - > i n f t y

, in which closed chains of many string bits behave like free lightcone IIB superstrings with d compact coordinate bosonic worldsheet fields

x^{k}

, and s pairs of Grassmann fermionic fields

h e t a_{L, R}^{a}

, a=1,..., s. The coordinates

x^{k}

emerge because, on the long chains, flavor fluctuations enjoy the dynamics of d anisotropic Heisenberg spin chains. It is well-known that the low energy excitations of a many-spin Heisenberg chain are identical to those of a string worldsheet coordinate compactified on a circle of radius

R_{k}

, which is related to the anisotropy parameter

- 1 < D e l t a_{k} < 1

of the corresponding Heisenberg system. Furthermore there is a limit of this parameter,

D e l t a_{k} - > p m 1

, in which

R_{k} - > i n f t y

. As noted in earlier work [Phys.Rev.D{�f 89}(2014)105002], these multi-string-bit chains are strictly stable at

N = i n f t y

when d<s and only marginally stable when d=s. (Poincare supersymmetry requires d=s=8, which is on the boundary between stability and instability.)

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