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Yang-Mills Action from Open Superstring Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We calculate the effective action for nonabelian gauge bosons up to quartic order using WZW-like open superstring field theory. After including level zero and level one contributions, we obtain with 75% accuracy the Yang-Mills quartic term. We then prove that the complete effective action reproduces the exact Yang-Mills quartic term by analytically performing a summation over the intermediate massive states.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0307019,
  title  = {Yang-Mills Action from Open Superstring Field Theory},
  author = {Nathan Berkovits and Martin Schnabl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0307019},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages