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The Nilpotent Structure of Open-Closed String Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-09-20 v2

Abstract

In this note we revisit the homotopy-algebraic structure of oriented bosonic open-closed string field theory and we give a new compact formulation in terms of a single cyclic open-closed coderivation which defines a single nilpotent structure describing the consistency of generic open-closed color-ordered off-shell amplitudes with arbitrary number of boundaries and at arbitrary genus.

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@article{arxiv.2305.02843,
  title  = {The Nilpotent Structure of Open-Closed String Field Theory},
  author = {Carlo Maccaferri and Alberto Ruffino and Jakub Vošmera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02843},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages. V2: minor presentation improvements

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