Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-04-30
JHEP 0307 (2003) 059
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
51 pages, 11 eps figures, Latex; v2: References added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/07/059
We investigate the quantum structure of Witten's cubic open bosonic string field theory by computing the one-loop contribution to the open string tadpole using both oscillator and conformal field theory methods. We find divergences and a breakdown of BRST invariance in the tadpole diagram arising from tachyonic and massless closed string states, and we discuss ways of treating these problems. For a Dp-brane with sufficiently many transverse dimensions, the tadpole can be rendered finite by analytically continuing the closed string tachyon by hand; this diagram then naturally incorporates the (linearized) shift of the closed string background due to the presence of the brane. We observe that divergences at higher loops will doom any straightforward attempt at analyzing general quantum effects in bosonic open string field theory on a Dp-brane of any dimension, but our analysis does not uncover any potential obstacles to the existence of a sensible quantum open string field theory in the supersymmetric case.
Ellwood Ian
Shelton Jessie
Taylor Washington
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