Published June 15, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Finiteness of the bosonic string in fewer than 26 dimensions

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487 (USA)

Description

We investigate the finiteness of one-loop N-tachyon amplitudes in lower-dimensional bosonic string theory. When the fermionic fields used to represent the internal degrees of freedom are given antiperiodic boundary conditions, we find that the apparent divergences in the amplitude from soft dilaton emission can be made to cancel when D=26 (mod4). We compare this result to simple toroidal compactification

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
12
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
3795-3797
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
20080887
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPACTIFICATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; STRING MODELS; TACHYONS
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES