On the relation between p-adic and ordinary strings
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
The amplitudes for the tree-level scattering of the open string tachyons, generalised to the field of p-adic numbers, define the p-adic string theory. There is empirical evidence of its relation to the ordinary string theory in the p_to_1 limit. We revisit this limit from a worldsheet perspective and argue that it is naturally thought of as a continuum limit in the sense of the renormalisation group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606082,
title = {On the relation between p-adic and ordinary strings},
author = {Debashis Ghoshal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606082},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages harvmac (b), 2 eps figures; v2: revtex, shortened, published version