String amplitudes as solutions to soliton equations
- 15 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 36 (6) , 1819-1826
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.36.1819
Abstract
Tree and one-loop bosonic string amplitudes are shown to be given by solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy of soliton equations whose solutions are completely known. Generalization to all Polyakov strings is discussed.Keywords
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