Stringy Higgs Mechanism and the Fate of Open Strings

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2000-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0011009v2

JHEP 0101:019,2001

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

21pages, harvmac b mode, references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/019

We propose a refinement of the physical picture describing different vacua in bosonic string theory. The vacua with closed strings and open strings are connected by the string field theory version of the Higgs mechanism, generalizing the Higgs mechanism of an abelian gauge field interacting with a complex scalar. In accordance with Sen's conjecture, the condensation of the tachyon is an essential part of the story. We consider this phenomenon from the point of view of both a world-sheet sigma-model and the target-space theory. In the Appendix the relevant remarks regarding the choice of the coordinates in the background independent open string field theory are given.

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