The Spectrum of Open String Field Theory at the Stable Tachyonic Vacuum

Details The Spectrum of Open String Field Theory at the Stable Tachyonic Vacuum The Spectrum of Open String Field Theory at the Stable Tachyonic Vacuum

2006-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611343v1

Nucl.Phys.B770:155-178,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

33 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.01.035

We present a level (10,30) numerical computation of the spectrum of quadratic fluctuations of Open String Field Theory around the tachyonic vacuum, both in the scalar and in the vector sector. Our results are consistent with Sen's conjecture about gauge-triviality of the small excitations. The computation is sufficiently accurate to provide robust evidence for the absence of the photon from the open string spectrum. We also observe that ghost string field propagators develop double poles. We show that this requires non-empty BRST cohomologies at non-standard ghost numbers. We comment about the relations of our results with recent work on the same subject.

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