The Identity String Field and the Tachyon Vacuum

Details The Identity String Field and the Tachyon Vacuum The Identity String Field and the Tachyon Vacuum

2001-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0105024v2

JHEP 0107 (2001) 016

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

25 pages, 1 figure, references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/016

We show that the triviality of the entire cohomology of the new BRST operator Q around the tachyon vacuum is equivalent to the Q-exactness of the identity I of the star-algebra. We use level truncation to show that as the level is increased, the identity becomes more accurately Q-exact. We carry our computations up to level nine, where an accuracy of 3% is attained. Our work supports, under a new light, Sen's conjecture concerning the absence of open string degrees of freedom around the tachyon vacuum. As a by-product, a new and simple expression for I in terms of Virasoro operators is found.

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