Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-03-17
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
15 pages, LaTeX (elsart macros), I drop a conjecture about the quantization of the model that now seems unwarranted. This does
Scientific paper
I consider a three-dimensional string theory whose action, besides the standard area term, contains one of the form $\int_{\Sigma} \epsilon_{\mu\nu\sigma} X^{\mu} d X^{\nu} \wedge d X^{\sigma}$. In the case of closed strings this extra term has a simple geometrical interpretation as the volume enclosed by the surface. The associated variational problem yields as solutions constant mean curvature surfaces. One may then show the equivalence of this equation of motion to that of an SU(2) principal chiral model coupled to gravity. It is also possible by means of the Kemmotsu representation theorem, restricted to constant curvature surfaces, to map the solution space of the string model into the one of the $CP^1$ nonlinear sigma model. I also show how a description of the Gauss map of the surface in terms of SU(2) spinors allows for yet a different description of this result by means of a Gross-Neveu spinorial model coupled to 2-D gravity. The standard three-dimensional string equations can also be recovered by setting the current-current coupling to zero.
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