EFFECTIVE STRING THEORY

被引:218
作者
POLCHINSKI, J [1 ]
STROMINGER, A [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,DEPT PHYS,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1681
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The effective conformal field theory governing the long-distance dynamics of string solitons in four dimensions, such as the Nielsen-Olesen vortex or QCD strings, is described. It is an interacting, Poincare-invariant conformal field theory with four bosons and c = 26. The compatibility of these naively contradictory features is explicitly demonstrated through second order in a perturbation expansion about the long-string vacuum.
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页码:1681 / 1684
页数:4
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