String theory considered as a local gauge theory of an extended object
- 15 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 35 (8) , 2474-2479
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.35.2474
Abstract
In attempting to understand more about the physical origin of the so-called ‘‘chordal gauge symmetry’’ in string field theory it is found that one can, at least formally, consider the theory as a generalized local gauge theory. However, the fundamental object is no longer a point, as in ordinary gauge theory, but a point with a tail, and it is the motion of this tail which represents the internal gauge degree of freedom. Moreover, the differential geometry is based on the non-Abelian conformal group instead of the usual translation group.Keywords
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