Witten's Cubic Open String Field Theory on multiple $Dp$-branes
Abstract
We study Witten's cubic open string field theory on multiple -branes. On multiple -branes the string fields carry group indices. Mapping the string world-sheet onto the upper half complex plane and evaluating the Polyakov string path integral of Witten's cubic open string, we obtain a Fock space representation of one, two and three-string vertex operators. In the low energy region, the system is described by massless gauge fields and massless scalar fields, carrying group indices. The two-string vertex induces mass terms for the gauge fields and the scalar fields. The cubic interaction reduces correctly to the cubic term of the non-Abelian gauge fields, cubic interaction terms of the gauge fields, and the scalar fields on dimensional space. Thus, Witten's string field theory may be a useful tool to study the quantum dynamics of open strings on multiple -branes.
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@article{arxiv.2202.05575,
title = {Witten's Cubic Open String Field Theory on multiple $Dp$-branes},
author = {Taejin Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.05575},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
25 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2201.09632. New references are added