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Open string stub as an auxiliary string field

by Harold Erbin, Atakan Hilmi Firat

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Harold Erbin · Atakan Hilmi Firat
Submission information
Preprint Link: scipost_202404_00011v1  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2024-07-09
Date submitted: 2024-04-08 19:08
Submitted by: Firat, Atakan Hilmi
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Theory
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

Witten's open string field theory with a generalized version of stubs is reformulated as a cubic string field theory using an auxiliary string field. The gauge symmetries and equations of motion as well as the associative algebra of the resulting theory are investigated. Integrating out either the original or auxiliary field is shown to recover the conventional cubic theory. Our analysis demonstrates that deformations due to the stubs can be described as a homotopy transfer purely in the context of strong deformation retract. We also discuss to what extent the vertex regions resulting from stubs provide a model for the elementary interactions of closed string field theory.

Published as SciPost Phys. 17, 044 (2024)

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