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Interactions for Winding Strings in Misner Space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We compute correlation functions of closed strings in Misner space, a big crunch big bang universe. We develop a general method for correlators with twist fields, which are relevant for the investigation on the condensation of winding tachyon. We propose to compute the correlation functions by performing an analytic continuation of the results in C/Z_N Euclidean orbifold. In particular, we obtain a finite result for a general four point function of twist fields, which might be important for the interpretation as the quartic term of the tachyon potential. Three point functions are read off through the factorization, which are consistent with the known results.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606191,
  title  = {Interactions for Winding Strings in Misner Space},
  author = {Yasuaki Hikida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606191},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

29 pages, no figure; typos corrected, references added