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Ghost-Matter Mixing and Feigenbaum Universality in String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

Brane-like vertex operators, defining backgrounds with the ghost-matter mixing in NSR superstring theory, play an important role in a world-sheet formulation of D-branes and M theory, being creation operators for extended objects in the second quantized formalism. In this paper we show that dilaton's beta function in ghost-matter mixing backgrounds becomes stochastic. The renormalization group (RG) equations in ghost-matter mixing backgrounds lead to non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equations which solutions describe superstrings in curved space-times with brane-like metrics.We show that Feigenbaum universality constant δ=4,669...\delta=4,669... describing transitions from order to chaos in a huge variety of dynamical systems, appears analytically in these RG equations. We find that the appearance of this constant is related to the scaling of relative space-time curvatures at fixed points of the RG flow. In this picture the fixed points correspond to the period doubling of Feigenbaum iterational schemes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212137,
  title  = {Ghost-Matter Mixing and Feigenbaum Universality in String Theory},
  author = {Ian I. Kogan and Dimitri Polyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212137},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, typos corrected. Dedicated to the 80-th birthday of Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan

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