The Effective Theory of Strings

Dorothea Bahns; Kasia Rejzner; Jochen Zahn

doi:10.1007/s00220-014-1955-7

The Effective Theory of Strings

Dorothea Bahns, Kasia Rejzner, Jochen Zahn

Mathematics

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Abstract

We show that the Nambu–Goto string, and its higher dimensional generalizations, can be quantized, in the sense of an effective theory, in any dimension of the target space. The crucial point is to consider expansions around classical string configurations. We are using tools from perturbative algebraic quantum field theory, quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, and the Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism. Our model has some similarities with the Lüscher–Weisz string, but we allow for arbitrary classical background string configurations and keep the diffeomorphism invariance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	779-814
Number of pages	36
Journal	Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume	327
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-1955-7
Publication status	Published - Mar 2014

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