Some Computations in Background Independent Open-String Field Theory
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- 12 October 1992
Abstract
Recently, background independent open-string field theory has been formally defined in the space of all two-dimensional world-sheet theories. In this paper, to make the construction more concrete, I compute the action for an off-shell tachyon field of a certain simple type. From the computation it emerges that, although the string field action does not coincide with the world-sheet (matter) partition function in general, these functions do coincide on shell. This can be demonstrated in general, as long as matter and ghosts are decoupled.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1992-10-12, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review D, 47 (8), 3405.
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