Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-05-12
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
35 pages, no figures
Scientific paper
In this paper, we recast the fermionic ghost sector of Witten's open bosonic string field theory in the language of noncommutative field theory. In particular, following the methods of hep-th/0202087, we find that in Siegel gauge Witten's star product roughly corresponds to a continuous tensor product of Clifford Algebras, and we formulate important operators of the theory in this language, notably the kinetic operator of vacuum string field theory and the BRST operator describing the vacuum of the unstable D-25 brane. We find that the BRST operator is singular in this formulation. We explore alternative operator/Moyal representations of the star product analogous to the split string description and the discrete Moyal basis developed extensively in recent work by Bars and Matsuo (hep-th/0204260). Finally, we discuss some interesting singularities in the formalism and how they may be regulated.
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