Integrable Structures in String Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-04-05 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Abstract
We give a simple proof that the Neumann coefficients of surface states in Witten's SFT satisfy the Hirota equations for dispersionless KP hierarchy. In a similar way we show that the Neumann coefficients for the three string vertex in the same theory obey the Hirota equations of the dispersionless Toda Lattice hierarchy. We conjecture that the full (dispersive) Toda Lattice hierachy and, even more attractively a two--matrix model, may underlie open SFT.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0211283,
title = {Integrable Structures in String Field Theory},
author = {L. Bonora and A. S. Sorin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0211283},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
11 pages; v.2:some adjustments, some explicit equations added