Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-09-29
Nucl.Phys.B460:77-108,1996
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
32 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures in uuencoded file
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00608-7
The influence of world-sheet boundary condensates on the toroidal compactification of bosonic string theories is considered. At the special points in the moduli space at which the closed-string theory possesses an enhanced unbroken $G\times G$ symmetry (where $G$ is a semi-simple product of simply laced groups) a scalar boundary condensate parameterizes the coset $G\times G/G$. Fluctuations around this background define an open-string generalization of the corresponding chiral nonlinear sigma model. Tree-level scattering amplitudes of on-shell massless states (\lq pions') reduce to the amplitudes of the principal chiral model for the group $G$ in the low energy limit. Furthermore, the condition for the vanishing of the renormalization group beta function at one loop results in the familiar equation of motion for that model. The quantum corrections to the open-string theory generate a mixing of open and closed strings so that the coset-space pions mix with the closed-string $G\times G$ gauge fields, resulting in a Higgs-like breakdown of the symmetry to the diagonal $G$ group. The case of non-oriented strings is also discussed.
Green Michael B.
Gutperle Michael
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