Published December 15, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

String field theory in the temporal gauge

  • 1. Department of Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa, Kyoto 606 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 (Japan)
  • 4. KEK Theory Group, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 (Japan)

Description

We construct the string field Hamiltonian for c=1-[6/m(m+1)] string theory in the temporal gauge. In order to do so, we first examine the Schwinger-Dyson equations of the matrix chain models and propose the continuum version of them. The results of boundary conformal field theory are useful in making a connection between the discrete and continuum pictures. The W constraints are derived from the continuum Schwinger-Dyson equations. We also check that these equations are consistent with other known results about noncritical string theory. The string field Hamiltonian is easily obtained from the continuum Schwinger-Dyson equations. It looks similar to the Kaku-Kikkawa Hamiltonian and may readily be generalized to c>1 cases

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
50
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 7467-7478.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ