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Space-Time Uncertainty and Noncommutativity in String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We analyze the nature of space-time nonlocality in string theory. After giving a brief overview on the conjecture of the space-time uncertainty principle, a (semi-classical) reformulation of string quantum mechanics, in which the dynamics is represented by the noncommutativity between temporal and spatial coordinates, is outlined. The formalism is then compared to the space-time noncommutative field theories associated with nonzero electric B-fields.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0010172,
  title  = {Space-Time Uncertainty and Noncommutativity in String Theory},
  author = {Tamiaki Yoneya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0010172},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages with one figure. Written version of talks presented at the Strings 2000 (Michigan, July, 2000) and the Summer Workshop on Branes (KIAS, Seoul, June, 2000)

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