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Stringy Higgs mechanism and the fate of open strings

Author(s) -

A. Gerasimov,

Samson L. Shatashvili

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of high energy physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 261

eISSN - 1126-6708

pISSN - 1029-8479

DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/019

Subject(s) - theoretical physics , tachyon condensation , physics , string field theory , type i string theory , higgs mechanism , string theory , higgs field , tachyonic field , tachyon , relationship between string theory and quantum field theory , non critical string theory , string phenomenology , gauge theory , string (physics) , higgs boson , particle physics , quantum mechanics , quantum gravity , quantum

We propose a refinement of the physical picture describing different vacua inbosonic string theory. The vacua with closed strings and open strings areconnected by the string field theory version of the Higgs mechanism,generalizing the Higgs mechanism of an abelian gauge field interacting with acomplex scalar. In accordance with Sen's conjecture, the condensation of thetachyon is an essential part of the story. We consider this phenomenon from thepoint of view of both a world-sheet sigma-model and the target-space theory. Inthe Appendix the relevant remarks regarding the choice of the coordinates inthe background independent open string field theory are given.Comment: 21pages, harvmac b mode, references adde

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