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We discuss the integrability of the Berkovits-Siegel open string field equations and derive an infinite set of their non-local (solution-generating) symmetries. The string field equations are embedded in an infinite system of overdetermined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Olaf Lechtenfeld , Alexander D. Popov

We study covariant open bosonic string field theory in lightcone gauge. When lightcone gauge is well-defined, we find two results. First, the vertices of the gauge-fixed action consist of Mandelstam diagrams with stubs covering specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Theodore Erler

We construct analytic solutions of open superstring field theory in the Berkovits formulation using boundary condition changing operators under some regularity conditions, extending the previous construction in the bosonic string. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-13 Toshifumi Noumi , Yuji Okawa

We give the general form of the vertex corresponding to the interaction of an arbitrary number of strings. The technique employed relies on the ``comma" representation of String Field Theory where string fields and interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Bordes , A. Abdurrahman , F. Anton

By integrating the Seiberg-Witten differential equation in a special path, we write ordinary gauge fields in terms of their non-commutative counterparts up to three non-commutative gauge fields. We then use this change of variables to write…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Mohammad R. Garousi

We complete the construction of vacuum string field theory by proposing a canonical choice of ghost kinetic term -- a local insertion of the ghost field at the string midpoint with an infinite normalization. This choice, supported by level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Davide Gaiotto , Leonardo Rastelli , Ashoke Sen , Barton Zwiebach

We define string geometry: spaces of superstrings including the interactions, their topologies, charts, and metrics. Trajectories in asymptotic processes on a space of strings reproduce the right moduli space of the super Riemann surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Matsuo Sato

We show that the boundary states satisfy a nonlinear relation (the idempotency equation) with respect to the star product of closed string field theory. This relation is universal in the sense that various D-branes, including the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Isao Kishimoto , Yutaka Matsuo , Eitoku Watanabe

We consider the formulation of two dimensional QCD in terms of gauge invariant bilocal operators (string field) which satisfy a $W_\infty$ algebra. In analogy with our work on the $c=1$ string field theory we derive an action and associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Avinash Dhar , Gautam Mandal , Spenta R. Wadia

We consider two problems associated to the space of Riemann surfaces that are closely related to string theory. We first consider the problem of existence of heterotic-string and type-II-superstring field theory vertices in the product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Seyed Faroogh Moosavian , Yehao Zhou

We present a new approach to formulating open superstring field theory based on the covering of the supermoduli space of super-Riemann surfaces and explicitly construct a gauge-invariant action in the Neveu-Schwarz sector up to quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-12 Kantaro Ohmori , Yuji Okawa

Superstring field theory expresses the perturbative S-matrix of superstring theory as a sum of Feynman diagrams each of which is manifestly free from ultraviolet divergences. The interaction vertices fall off exponentially for large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-04 Roji Pius , Ashoke Sen

We construct mappings that send solutions of the cubic and non-polynomial open superstring field theories to each other. We prove that the action is invariant under the maps and that gauge orbits are mapped into gauge orbits. It follows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Ehud Fuchs , Michael Kroyter

We construct a class of analytic solutions of WZW-type open superstring field theory describing marginal deformations of a reference D-brane background. The deformations we consider are generated by on-shell vertex operators with vanishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Theodore Erler

We investigate higher-point correlators in the BFSS matrix model, a non-conformal theory dual to type IIA string theory, using Witten diagrams and techniques from the amplitudes program. While the Witten diagrams are more complex than those…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-20 Anna Biggs , Aidan Herderschee

In a previous paper it was shown that the recently constructed action for open superstring field theory based on $A_\infty$ algebras can be re-written in Wess-Zumino-Witten-like form, thus establishing its relation to Berkovits' open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-07 Theodore Erler

We formulate a string field theory for open $\mathcal{N}=2$ strings with an $A_{\infty}$ algebra structure. Starting from the BRST cohomology relative to the U(1) anti-ghost zero-mode, we generalize [arXiv:1312.2948] and constructed all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Xianghang Zhang

We study the level-expansion structure of the NS string field theory actions, mainly focusing on the modified (i.e. 0-picture in the NS sector) cubic superstring field theory. This theory has a non-trivial structure already at the quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuki Ohmori

After introducing non-minimal variables, the midpoint insertion of Y\bar Y in cubic open Neveu-Schwarz string field theory can be replaced with an operator N_\rho depending on a constant parameter \rho. As in cubic open superstring field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Nathan Berkovits , Warren Siegel

We outline the construction of type II superstring field theory leading to a geometric and algebraic BV master equation, analogous to Zwiebach's construction for the bosonic string. The construction uses the small Hilbert space. Elementary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-13 Branislav Jurco , Korbinian Muenster