All Conformal Effective String Theories are Isospectral to Nambu-Goto Theory

2009/11/17 by N. D. Hari Dass, Dass, N. D. Hari
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-lat #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0911.3236

4 pages in REVTEX. Various typos fixed, the abstract and discussions modestly enlarged and presentation improved in v2

arxiv created 2009/11/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/08

Abstract

It is shown that all Polchinski-Strominger effective string theories are isospectral to Nambu-Goto theory. The relevance of these results to QCD-Strings is discussed.

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