Published May 15, 2008
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Journal article
Spectral properties of ghost Neumann matrices
- 1. Center for Quantum SpaceTime (CQUEST), Sogang University, Shinsu-dong 1, Mapo-gu, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
- 2. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF-MCT)-LAFEX, R. Dr. Xavier Sigaud, 150, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-180 (Brazil)
- 3. International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste (Italy) and INFN, Sezione di Trieste (Italy)
Description
We continue the analysis of the ghost wedge states in the oscillator formalism by studying the spectral properties of the ghost matrices of Neumann coefficients. We show that the traditional spectral representation is not valid for these matrices and propose a new heuristic formula that allows one to reconstruct them from the knowledge of their eigenvalues and eigenvectors. It turns out that additional data, which we call boundary data, are needed in order to actually implement the reconstruction. In particular our result lends support to the conjecture that there exists a ghost three strings vertex with properties parallel to those of the matter three strings vertex
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.106001;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0801.2099v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 77
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 106001-106001.16
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40075546
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EIGENVALUES; EIGENVECTORS; MATRICES; MATTER; OSCILLATORS; SPECTRA
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society