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Timelike T-duality in the string field Schrodinger functional

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v2

Abstract

Timelike T-duality of string theory appears as a symmetry of time evolution in string field theory, exchanging evolution through times t and 1/t, and exchanging boundary states with backgrounds. This is demonstrated by constructing the string field Schrodinger functional, the generator of time evolution, based on Feynman diagram arguments and in analogy with quantum field theory. There, the functional can be described using only properties of first quantised particles on a timelike orbifold. Using new sewing rules applicable to both open and closed strings we generalise this approach to bosonic string theory and express the string field Schrodinger functional in terms of strings on S^1/Z_2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0411166,
  title  = {Timelike T-duality in the string field Schrodinger functional},
  author = {A. Ilderton and P. Mansfield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0411166},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

49 pages, 39 .eps figures. Replaced with published version