Classical/Quantum Duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
String theory requires two kinds of loop expansion: classical worldsheet loops with expansion parameter where is a modulus field, and quantum spacetime loops with expansion parameter where is the dilaton field. Four-dimensional string/string duality (a corollary of ten-dimensional string/fivebrane duality) interchanges the roles of and and hence interchanges classical and quantum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9410210,
title = {Classical/Quantum Duality},
author = {M. J. Duff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9410210},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
5 pages latex, NI-94-016, Typographical errors corrected