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Renormalization of the Classical Bosonic String

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-11-18 v1

Abstract

We discuss a renormalization procedure for a classical bosonic string coupled to a massless scalar field. The classical equations of motion for this system are non-renormalizable if the number of spacetime dimensions exceeds four. Our analysis indicates that string excitation modes must be included to make the string a finite object.

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@article{arxiv.1911.06432,
  title  = {Renormalization of the Classical Bosonic String},
  author = {Zura Kakushadze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06432},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

8 pages; this paper was written in 1992 and published in a journal in 1993, without being uploaded to arXiv at that time

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