Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-12-23
JHEP 0903:020,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
35 pages; v2: typos corrected; v3: additional typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/020
We propose a quantum theory of membranes designed such that the ground-state wavefunction of the membrane with compact spatial topology \Sigma_h reproduces the partition function of the bosonic string on worldsheet \Sigma_h. The construction involves worldvolume matter at quantum criticality, described in the simplest case by Lifshitz scalars with dynamical critical exponent z=2. This matter system must be coupled to a novel theory of worldvolume gravity, also exhibiting quantum criticality with z=2. We first construct such a nonrelativistic "gravity at a Lifshitz point" with z=2 in D+1 spacetime dimensions, and then specialize to the critical case of D=2 suitable for the membrane worldvolume. We also show that in the second-quantized framework, the string partition function is reproduced if the spacetime ground state takes the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate of membranes in their first-quantized ground states, correlated across all genera.
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