A Proposal for the Vector State in Vacuum String Field Theory

2002/01/28 by R. C. Rashkov, Radoslav Rashkov, Rashkov, Radoslav +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0201229

12 pages

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Abstract

A previous calculation on the tachyon state arising as fluctuations of a D brane in vacuum string field theory is extended to include the vector state. We use the boundary conformal field theory approach of Rastelli, Sen and Zwiebach to construct a vector state. It is shown that the vector field satisfies the linearized equations of motion provided the two conditions k²=0 and k^μA_μ=0 are satisfied. Earlier calculations using Fock space techniques by Hata and Kawano have found massless vector states that are not necessarily transverse.

Citations

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