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.
Cite
@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