scholarly journals KLT factorization of winding string amplitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Gomis ◽  
Ziqi Yan ◽  
Matthew Yu
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Toroidal Compactifications ◽  
Quantum Numbers ◽  
String Amplitudes

Abstract We uncover a Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT)-type factorization of closed string amplitudes into open string amplitudes for closed string states carrying winding and momentum in toroidal compactifications. The winding and momentum closed string quantum numbers map respectively to the integer and fractional winding quantum numbers of open strings ending on a D-brane array localized in the compactified directions. The closed string amplitudes factorize into products of open string scattering amplitudes with the open strings ending on a D-brane configuration determined by closed string data.

scholarly journals LOOP VARIABLES AND GAUGE INVARIANCE IN CLOSED BOSONIC STRING THEORY

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (38) ◽  
pp. 2857-2870 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. SATHIAPALAN
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Invariance ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Bosonic String ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Gauge Invariant ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Invariant Description ◽  
String Amplitudes ◽  
Closed Bosonic String

We extend an earlier proposal for a gauge-invariant description of off-shell open strings (at tree level), using loop variables, to off-shell closed strings (at tree level). The basic idea is to describe the closed string amplitudes as a product of two open string amplitudes (using the technique of Kawai, Lewellen and Tye). The loop variable techniques that were used earlier for open strings can be applied here mutatis mutandis. It is a proposal for a theory whose on-shell amplitudes coincide with those of the closed bosonic string in 26 dimensions. It is also gauge-invariant off-shell. As was the case with the open string, the interacting closed string looks like a free closed string thickened to a band.

scholarly journals Overview of High Energy String Scattering Amplitudes and Symmetries of String Theory

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen-Chi Lee ◽  
Yi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Recurrence Relations ◽  
Dynamical Symmetry ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Fixed Angle ◽  
Linear Relations ◽  
Arbitrary Mass ◽  
String Amplitudes

In this paper, we studied symmetries of string scattering amplitudes in the high energy limits of both the fixed angle or Gross regime (GR) and the fixed momentum transfer or Regge regime (RR). We calculated high energy string scattering amplitudes (SSA) at arbitrary mass levels for both regimes. We discovered the infinite linear relations among fixed angle string amplitudes and the ifinite recurrence relations among Regge string amplitudes. The linear relations we obtained in the GR corrected the saddle point calculations by Gross, Gross and Mende. In addition, for the high energy closed string scatterings, our results differ from theirs by an oscillating prefactor which was crucial to recover the KLT relation valid for all energies. We showed that all the high energy string amplitudes can be solved using the linear or recurrence relations, so that all the string amplitudes can be expressed in terms of a single string amplitude. We further found that, at each mass level, the ratios among the fixed angle amplitudes can be extracted from the Regge string scattering amplitudes. Finally, we reviewed the recent developments on the discovery of infinite number of recurrence relations valid for all energies among Lauricella SSA. The symmetries or relations among SSA at various limits obtained previously can be exactly reproduced. It leads us to argue that the known S L ( K + 3 , C ) dynamical symmetry of the Lauricella function may be crucial to probe spacetime symmetry of string theory.

scholarly journals Closed string amplitudes as single-valued open string amplitudes

2014 ◽  
Vol 881 ◽  
pp. 269-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Stieberger ◽  
Tomasz R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
String Amplitudes

A FUNCTIONAL LIGHT-CONE GAUGE CONSTRUCTION OF A BOSONIC STRING COMPACTIFIED ON A TORUS

1988 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 451-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.C. BRESSLOFF ◽  
J.G. TAYLOR ◽  
A. RESTUCCIA
Keyword(s):  
Open String ◽  
Bosonic String ◽  
Complex Conjugate ◽  
World Sheet ◽  
Light Cone Gauge ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
The World ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Quantized Field ◽  
String Amplitudes

The closed bosonic string compactified on a torus is decomposed into two open strings corresponding to left and right movers respectively. Multiloop amplitudes are expressed as a product of a holomorphic and an anti-holomorphic function of the moduli of the world-sheet Riemann surface. Such a product is obtained by analytically continuing left and right open string amplitudes such that one is the complex conjugate of the other. A justification for this analytic continuation is provided using a second quantized field theory of strings. The extra parameters needed for complexification are shown to arise from the constraint expressing invariance under choice of origin for string parametrization. The chiral string is discussed.

scholarly journals 1+1 DIMENSIONAL NCOS AND ITS U(N) GAUGE THEORY DUAL

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. 922-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
IGOR R. KLEBANOV ◽  
JUAN MALDACENA
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Finite Energy ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Dual Theory ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Electric Flux

We study some aspects of open string theories on D-branes with critical electric fields. We show that the massless open string modes that move in the direction of the electric field decouple. In the 1+1 dimensional case the dual theory is U(N) SYM with electric flux, and the decoupling of massless open strings is dual to the decoupling of the U(1) degrees of freedom. We also show that, if the direction along the electric field is compact, then there are finite energy winding closed string modes. They are dual to Higgs branch excitations of the SYM theory, and their energetics works accordingly. These properties provide new non-trivial evidence for the duality.

scholarly journals ACTION FOR (FREE) OPEN STRING MODES IN AdS SPACE USING THE LOOP VARIABLE APPROACH

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (02) ◽  
pp. 107-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. SATHIAPALAN
Keyword(s):  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Flat Space ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Variable Approach ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
Space Case

The loop variable technique (for open strings in flat space) is a gauge-invariant generalization of the renormalization group method for obtaining equations of motion. Unlike the beta functions, which are only proportional to the equations of motion, here it gives the full equation of motion. In an earlier paper, a technique was described for adapting this method to open strings in gravitational backgrounds. However, unlike the flat space case, these equations cannot be derived from an action and are therefore not complete. This is because there are ambiguities in the method that involve curvature couplings that cannot be fixed by appealing to gauge invariance alone but need a more complete treatment of the closed string background. An indirect method to resolve these ambiguities is to require symmetricity of the second derivatives of the action. In general this will involve modifying the equations by terms with arbitrarily high powers of curvature tensors. This is illustrated for the massive spin-two field. It is shown that in the special case of an AdS or dS background, the exact action can easily be determined in this way.

scholarly journals Plahte diagrams for string scattering amplitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pongwit Srisangyingcharoen ◽  
Paul Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Analytic Continuation ◽  
Complex Plane ◽  
Open String ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Recursion Relations ◽  
Sign Changes ◽  
String Amplitudes

Abstract Plahte identities are monodromy relations between open string scattering amplitudes at tree level derived from the Koba-Nielsen formula. We represent these identities by polygons in the complex plane. These diagrams make manifest the appearance of sign changes and singularities in the analytic continuation of amplitudes. They provide a geometric expression of the KLT relations between closed and open string amplitudes. We also connect the diagrams to the BCFW on-shell recursion relations and generalise them to complex momenta resulting in a relation between the complex phases of partial amplitudes.

scholarly journals Extracting bigravity from string theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Lüst ◽  
Chrysoula Markou ◽  
Pouria Mazloumi ◽  
Stephan Stieberger
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Bimetric Theory ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Massive Spin ◽  
Numerical Coefficient

Abstract The origin of the graviton from string theory is well understood: it corresponds to a massless state in closed string spectra, whose low-energy effective action, as extracted from string scattering amplitudes, is that of Einstein-Hilbert. In this work, we explore the possibility of such a string-theoretic emergence of ghost-free bimetric theory, a recently proposed theory that involves two dynamical metrics, that around particular backgrounds propagates the graviton and a massive spin-2 field, which has been argued to be a viable dark matter candidate. By choosing to identify the latter with a massive spin-2 state of open string spectra, we compute tree-level three-point string scattering amplitudes that describe interactions of the massive spin-2 with itself and with the graviton. With the mass of the external legs depending on the string scale, we discover that extracting the corresponding low-energy effective actions in four spacetime dimensions is a subtle but consistent process and proceed to appropriately compare them with bimetric theory. Our findings consist in establishing that string and bimetric theory provide to lowest order the same set of two-derivative terms describing the interactions of the massive spin-2 with itself and with the graviton, albeit up to numerical coefficient discrepancies, a fact that we analyze and interpret. We conclude with a mention of future investigations.

OPEN STRINGS AS Z2-ORBIFOLDS OF CLOSED STRINGS

1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (27) ◽  
pp. 2483-2496
Author(s):  
GREG NAGAO
Keyword(s):  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Bosonic String ◽  
Modular Invariant ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Loop Expansion ◽  
Invariant Formulation ◽  
Closed Bosonic String ◽  
String Theories

We present a modular invariant formulation of the open string in terms of the closed string. Chan–Paton factors are understood as multiplicities which arise from a factorization of the closed string. This interpretation of the Chan–Paton factors suggests that the SO (2D/2) open string is consistent to all orders of the loop expansion. We show that the open string may be viewed as a Z2-orbifold of the closed string. Relations are found between various string theories which seem to reinforce an earlier suggestion by Freund that all string theories are derivable from the D = 26 orientable closed bosonic string.

scholarly journals Gravitational Scattering Amplitudes and Closed String Field Theory in the Proper-Time Gauge

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 07004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taejin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
String Field Theory ◽  
Fock Space ◽  
Proper Time ◽  
Path Integrals ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Quantized String

We construct a covariant closed string field theory by extending recent works on the covariant open string field theory in the proper-time gauge. Rewriting the string scattering amplitudes generated by the closed string field theory in terms of the Polyakov string path integrals, we identify the Fock space representations of the closed string vertices. We show that the Fock space representations of the closed string field theory may be completely factorized into those of the open string field theory. It implies that the well known Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations of the first quantized string theory may be promoted to the second quantized closed string theory. We explicitly calculate the scattering amplitudes of three gravitons by using the closed string field theory in the proper-time gauge.

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