Published May 15, 2008 | Version v1
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

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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

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