Monday, July 16, 2012

1207.3335 (Matej Kudrna et al.)

Gauge-invariant observables and marginal deformations in open string
field theory
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Matej Kudrna, Toru Masuda, Yuji Okawa, Martin Schnabl, Kenichiro Yoshida
The level-truncation analysis of open string field theory for a class of periodic marginal deformations indicates that a branch of solutions in Siegel gauge exists only for a finite range of values of the marginal field. The periodicity in the deformation parameter is thus obscure. We use the relation between gauge-invariant observables and the closed string tadpole on a disk conjectured by Ellwood to construct a map between the deformation parameter of the boundary conformal field theory and the parameter labeling classical solutions of open string field theory. We evaluate the gauge-invariant observables for the numerical solutions in Siegel gauge up to level 12 and find that our results qualitatively agree with the analysis by Sen using the energy-momentum tensor and are consistent with the picture that the finite range of the branch covers one fundamental domain of the periodic moduli space.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3335

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