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Exact Solutions of Berkovits' String Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2

Abstract

The equation of motion for Berkovits' WZW-like open (super)string field theory is shown to be integrable in the sense that it can be written as the compatibility condition ("zero-curvature condition") of some linear equations. Employing a generalization of solution-generating techniques (the splitting and the dressing methods), we demonstrate how to construct nonperturbative classical configurations of both N=1 superstring and N=2 fermionic string field theories. With and without u(n) Chan-Paton factors, various solutions of the string field equation are presented explicitly.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0204155,
  title  = {Exact Solutions of Berkovits' String Field Theory},
  author = {Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov and Sebastian Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0204155},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

1+20 pages, LaTeX; v2: typos fixed, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B

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