The excitation spectrum of rotating strings with masses at the ends
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-12-13 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We compute the spectrum of excitations of the rotating Nambu-Goto string with masses at the ends. We find interesting quasi-massless modes in the limit of slow rotation and comment on the nontrivial relation between world-sheet and target space energy.
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@article{arxiv.1310.0253,
title = {The excitation spectrum of rotating strings with masses at the ends},
author = {Jochen Zahn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0253},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
13 pages, 1 figure, v2: Typos corrected, v3: final