Published July 29, 1991
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Journal article
S=1 for c=1
Description
We compare the tachyon correlation functions in the Liouville path integral and in the string field theory approaches to quantum gravity coupled to c = 1 matter. Both calculations yield external leg factors which have poles at the quantized values of momentum where there are extra degrees of freedom in the form of dressed special primary fields. If the external leg factors are absorbed in the redefinition of vertex operators, then the correlation functions are zero per unit volume, characteristic of a free-field theory in two dimensions. Indeed, although its bosonic action is non-polynomial, the string field theory is non-interacting if the reflections from the spatial boundaries are ignored. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics B, Particle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 359
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 3-20
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 23002935
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; BOSONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; COUPLING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; EIGENVALUES; FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL; FIELD OPERATORS; HAMILTONIANS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; LATTICE FIELD THEORY; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; S MATRIX; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SPECTRAL DENSITY; STRING MODELS; TACHYONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; VERTEX FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLITUDES; CONSTRUCTIVE FIELD THEORY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRICES; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPECTRAL FUNCTIONS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Grant PHY-80-19754; DE-AC02-76WR03072