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String Geometry and Non-perturbative Formulation of String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-02-03 v5 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Differential Geometry Functional Analysis Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

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 in a target manifold. Based on the string geometry, we define Einstein-Hilbert action coupled with gauge fields, and formulate superstring theory non-perturbatively by summing over metrics and the gauge fields on the spaces of strings. This theory does not depend on backgrounds. The theory has a supersymmetry as a part of the diffeomorphisms symmetry on the superstring manifolds. We derive the all-order perturbative scattering amplitudes that possess the super moduli in type IIA, type IIB and SO(32) type I superstring theories from the single theory, by considering fluctuations around fixed backgrounds representing type IIA, type IIB and SO(32) type I perturbative vacua, respectively. The theory predicts that we can see a string if we microscopically observe not only a particle but also a point in the space-time. That is, this theory unifies particles and the space-time.

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@article{arxiv.1709.03506,
  title  = {String Geometry and Non-perturbative Formulation of String Theory},
  author = {Matsuo Sato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03506},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

92 pages, 5 figures, minor changes, references added

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