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Off-Shell Amplitudes in Two Dimensional String Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v1

Abstract

In this note we present an explicit procedure for the regularization of tree level amplitudes involving discrete states, using open string field theory. We show that there is a natural correspondence between the discrete states and off--shell states, later acting as a regularized version of the former. A general off-shell state corresponds to several physical states. In order to obtain the well--defined SS matrix elements one has to choose representatives close but not equal to the desired values of external momenta. The procedure renders finite all 44-point amplitudes with an even number of (naively) divergent channels even after the regularization is removed. The rest of the amplitudes can be defined by means of such regularization.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9402105,
  title  = {Off-Shell Amplitudes in Two Dimensional String Field Theory},
  author = {Branko Urosevic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9402105},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Brown preprint BROWN-HET-936, 11 pages (two figures available upon request), uses phyzzx