Strings, Virasoro Sandwiches and Worldsheet Horizons

Autor:	Bagchi, Arjun, Banerjee, Aritra, Rasulian, Ida M., Sheikh-Jabbari, M. M.
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We revisit the canonical quantization of free bosonic closed string theory and observe that the physicality of states requires vanishing of the worldsheet Virasoro algebra generators sandwiched between any two physical states. This requirement yields four classes of physical states, depending on discrete worldsheet symmetries: parity and time reversal. The usual string states which are highest weight states of the Virasoro algebra, preserve both, while the other new three classes break one or both. We apply our formulation to an accelerated worldsheet with horizons, initiating the worldsheet formulation of a thermal string theory and strings probing horizon of black holes. Comment: 5+ \epsilon pages + References, two figures. We would like to dedicate this work to the memory of the great Joe Polchinski, especially for his excellent String Theory textbooks
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16152 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv