Unitarity of the closed bosonic Polyakov string

Feb, 1987
23 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 291 (1987) 90
  • Published: 1987
Report number:
  • PUPT-1046

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We prove that the scattering amplitudes obtained in the Polyakov formulation of the closed bosonic string by integrating over a single copy of moduli space equal those of the light-cone interacting string and are thus unitary.
  • MODEL: STRING
  • string model: boson
  • SCATTERING AMPLITUDE
  • UNITARITY
  • FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
  • FIELD THEORY: LIGHT CONE GAUGE
  • FIELD THEORY: PATH INTEGRAL
  • STRING: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: STRING
  • OPERATOR: VERTEX