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Diffeomorphism in Closed String Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-17 v1

Abstract

We explain how the spacetime diffeomorphism in the classical bosonic closed string field theory (SFT) is represented as LL_\infty gauge transformations in weakly curved backgrounds. In particular, we demonstrate the explicit map between covariant spacetime fields and the string fields in the flat-vertex frame to the leading few orders in perturbation theory. We further consider a Batalin-Vilkovisky system of extended string fields that manifests diffeomorphism invariance and allows for extending certain perturbative SFT solutions to the large field regime.

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@article{arxiv.2504.12290,
  title  = {Diffeomorphism in Closed String Field Theory},
  author = {Ben Mazel and Charles Wang and Xi Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.12290},
  year   = {2025}
}

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