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.

scholarly journals OPEN-CLOSED DUALITY: LESSONS FROM MATRIX MODEL

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 841-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
ASHOKE SEN
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
String Field Theory ◽  
Classical Result ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Two Dimensional

Recent investigations involving the decay of unstable D-branes in string theory suggest that the tree level open string theory which describes the dynamics of the D-brane already knows about the closed string states produced in the decay of the brane. We propose a specific conjecture involving quantum open string field theory to explain this classical result, and show that the recent results in two-dimensional string theory are in exact accordance with this conjecture.

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.

scholarly journals A NOTE ON NONCOMMUTATIVE STRING THEORY AND ITS LOW ENERGY LIMIT

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1733-1747
Author(s):  
SHESANSU SEKHAR PAL
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Open String ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Energy Limit ◽  
Noncommutative Gauge Theory

The noncommutative string theory is described by embedding open string theory in a constant second rank antisymmetric Bμν field and the noncommutative gauge theory is defined by a deformed ⋆ product. As a check, the study of various scattering amplitudes in both noncommutative string and noncommutative gauge theory confirms that in the α′ → 0 limit, the noncommutative string theoretic amplitude goes over to the noncommutative gauge theoretic amplitude and the couplings are related as [Formula: see text]. Furthermore, we show that in this limit there will not be any correction to the gauge theoretic action because of the absence of massive modes. We get sin/cos factors in the scattering amplitudes depending on the odd/even number of external photons.

scholarly journals DIVERGENCES OF DISCRETE STATES AMPLITUDES AND EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIAN IN 2D STRING THEORY

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (16) ◽  
pp. 1469-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. YA. AREF’EVA ◽  
A.P. ZUBAREV
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Lie Algebra ◽  
Open String ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Ward Identities ◽  
Effective Lagrangian ◽  
Discrete States

Scattering amplitudes for discrete states in 2D string theory are considered. Pole divergences of tree-level amplitudes are observed and residues are interpreted as renormalized amplitudes for discrete states. An effective Lagrangian generating renormalized amplitudes for open string is obtained and the corresponding Ward identities are presented. A relation of this Lagrangian with homotopy Lie algebra is discussed.

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 STRING COSMOLOGY AND CHAOS

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 1499-1509
Author(s):  
THIBAULT DAMOUR
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
String Cosmology ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Weyl Groups ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Cosmological Solutions

We briefly review two aspects of string cosmology: (1) the presence of chaos in the generic cosmological solutions of the tree-level low-energy effective actions coming out of string theory, and (2) the remarkable link between the latter chaos and the Weyl groups of some hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras.

scholarly journals Quantum effects in topological and Schwarzschild de Sitter brane: Aspects of torsion on $(D\!{\bar D})_4$-brane

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Kapoor ◽  
Supriya Kar ◽  
Deobrat Singh
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Quantum Effects ◽  
Open String ◽  
Momentum Tensor ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
World Volume ◽  
Einstein Vacuum ◽  
Superstring Theories

We investigate an effective torsion curvature in a second-order formalism underlying a two-form world-volume dynamics in a D5-brane. In particular, we consider the two form in presence of a background (open string) metric in a U(1) gauge theory. Interestingly the formalism may be viewed via a noncoincident pair of [Formula: see text]-brane with a global Nereu–Schwarz (NS) two form on an anti-brane and a local two form on a brane. The energy–momentum tensor is computed in the six-dimensional (6D) conformal field theory (CFT). It is shown to source a metric fluctuation on a vacuum created pair of [Formula: see text]-brane at a cosmological horizon by the two-form quanta in the gauge theory. The emergent gravity scenario is shown to describe a low-energy (perturbative) string vacuum in 6D with a nonperturbative (NP) quantum correction by a lower (p < 5) dimensional Dp-brane or an anti-brane in the formalism. A closed string exchange between a pair of [Formula: see text]-brane, underlying a closed/open string duality, is argued to describe the Einstein vacuum in a low-energy limit. We obtain topological de Sitter (TdS) and Schwarzschild brane universe in six dimensions. The brane/anti-brane geometries are analyzed to explore some of their characteristic and thermal behaviors in presence of the quantum effects. They reveal an underlying nine-dimensional type IIA and IIB superstring theories on S1.

scholarly journals Classical algebraic structures in string theory effective actions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Erbin ◽  
Carlo Maccaferri ◽  
Martin Schnabl ◽  
Jakub Vošmera
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Microscopic Theory ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Generic Properties ◽  
Vertical Decomposition ◽  
String Background ◽  
New Framework

Abstract We study generic properties of string theory effective actions obtained by classically integrating out massive excitations from string field theories based on cyclic homotopy algebras of A∞ or L∞ type. We construct observables in the UV theory and we discuss their fate after integration-out. Furthermore, we discuss how to compose two subsequent integrations of degrees of freedom (horizontal composition) and how to integrate out degrees of freedom after deforming the UV theory with a new consistent interaction (vertical decomposition). We then apply our general results to the open bosonic string using Witten’s open string field theory. There we show how the horizontal composition can be used to systematically integrate out the Nakanishi-Lautrup field from the set of massless excitations, ending with a non-abelian A∞-gauge theory for just the open string gluon. Moreover we show how the vertical decomposition can be used to construct effective open-closed couplings by deforming Witten OSFT with a tadpole given by the Ellwood invariant. Also, we discuss how the effective theory controls the possibility of removing the tadpole in the microscopic theory, giving a new framework for studying D-brane deformations induced by changes in the closed string background.

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 HOLOMORPHIC FACTORIZATION AND RENORMALIZATION GROUP IN CLOSED STRING THEORY

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (15) ◽  
pp. 1161-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. SATHIAPALAN
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Open String ◽  
Renormalization Group Equation ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Group Equation ◽  
Sums Of Products

The prescription of Kawai, Lewellen and Tye for writing closed string tree amplitudes as sums of products of open string tree amplitudes, is applied to the worldsheet renormalization group equation. The main point is that regularization of the Minkowski (rather than Euclidean) worldsheet theory allows factorization into left-moving and right-moving sectors to be maintained. Explicit calculations are done for the tachyon and the (gauge fixed) graviton.

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