Four lectures on closed string field theory

2019/05/31 by Theodore Erler
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2020.01.003

v3: 54 pages, 19 figures. Redrawn figures with increased resolution; new appendix; other improvements as requested by referee

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Abstract

The following notes derive from review lectures on closed string field theory given at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics in March 2019.

Citations

• Equivalence of two contour prescriptions in superstring perturbation theory
• Open superstring field theory based on the supermoduli space
• Vertical integration from the large Hilbert space

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