STRING FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF D=1 STRINGS

Sumit R. Das; Antal Jevicki

doi:10.1142/s0217732390001888

Abstract

We describe a field theoretic formulation for one-dimensional string theory. It is given by the collective field representation of the matrix model and leads to a physical interpretation of the theory as that of a massless scalar field in two dimensions. The additional dimension, coming from the large-N color of the matrix model, has an extent which goes to infinity in the continuum limit. The interactions of the field theory are non-zero only at the boundaries of this additional dimension.

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PhysicsString field theoryTheoretical physicsInterpretation (philosophy)Relationship between string theory and quantum field theoryScalar fieldScalar field theoryCompactification (mathematics)String theoryField theory (psychology)Field (mathematics)Massless particleMathematical physicsQuantum mechanicsQuantum gravityPure mathematicsMathematics

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Year: 1990
Type: article
Volume: 05
Issue: 21
Pages: 1639-1650
Citations: 310
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                                    Sumit R. Das, 
                                
                                    Antal Jevicki
                                
                            (1990). 
                            STRING FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF D=1 STRINGS. 
                            Modern Physics Letters A
                            , 05
                            (21)
                            , 1639-1650.
                            https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732390001888

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DOI: 10.1142/s0217732390001888