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BCFT and OSFT moduli: an exact perturbative comparison

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-30 v2

Abstract

Starting from the pseudo-B0{\cal B}_0 gauge solution for marginal deformations in OSFT, we analytically compute the relation between the perturbative deformation parameter λ~\tilde\lambda in the solution and the BCFT marginal parameter λ\lambda, up to fifth order, by evaluating the Ellwood invariants. We observe that the microscopic reason why λ~\tilde\lambda and λ\lambda are different is that the OSFT propagator renormalizes contact term divergences differently from the contour deformation used in BCFT

Cite

@article{arxiv.1702.06489,
  title  = {BCFT and OSFT moduli: an exact perturbative comparison},
  author = {Pier Vittorio Larocca and Carlo Maccaferri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06489},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

26+5 pages, 10 figures V2: minor improvements, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:24:24.541Z