Massless radiation from strings: Quantum spectrum average statistics and cusp-kink configurations

Feb, 2006
11 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (2006) 054
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Abstract:
We derive general formulae for computing the average spectrum for Bosonic or Fermionic massless emission from generic or particular sets of closed superstring quantum states, among the many occurring at a given large value of the number operator. In particular we look for states that can produce a Bosonic spectrum resembling the classical spectrum expected for peculiar cusp-like or kink-like classical configurations, and we perform a statistical counting of their average number. The results can be relevant in the framework of possible observations of the radiation emitted by cosmic strings.
  • string model
  • radiation: massless
  • energy spectrum
  • statistical mechanics
  • constraint: Virasoro
  • dependence: gauge