Published April 20, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

New discrete states of strings near a black hole

  • 1. Joseph Henry Labs., Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  • 2. Physics Dept., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)

Description

We find the physical spectrum for the 'black hole' solution recently proposed by E. Witten as an exact string background with a 2-dimensional target space. The spectrum contains some of the states found in studies of d=1 non-critical string theory but, in addition, has new states not previously found in the d=1 non-critical string. Along the way we find a remarkable 'stringy' symmetry of the spectrum relating massive states to massless ones. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Particle Physics
Journal Volume
374
Journal Issue
1
Series
Nucl. Phys., B Part. Phys.
Journal Page Range
123-155
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBB

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant PHY-88-57200; PHY-80-19754