Gauge-invariant action for free string field theory with boundary

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Auteurs principaux: Maccaferri, Carlo, Ruffino, Alberto, Vošmera, Jakub
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author Maccaferri, Carlo
Ruffino, Alberto
Vošmera, Jakub
author_facet Maccaferri, Carlo
Ruffino, Alberto
Vošmera, Jakub
contents We construct fully gauge-invariant kinetic terms for open and closed string field theories on a target space with boundary. This is realized by promoting the gauge parameters at the boundary to extra dynamical modes describing boundary degrees of freedom. Having a gauge-invariant classical action, we also construct the corresponding BV master action and show that the master equation is obeyed thanks to a peculiar nilpotent structure of the BV kinetic operator. From this general construction we explicitly derive free actions for massless and massive modes of open and closed strings propagating on a target with a boundary, including linear-dilaton backgrounds.
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spellingShingle Gauge-invariant action for free string field theory with boundary
Maccaferri, Carlo
Ruffino, Alberto
Vošmera, Jakub
High Energy Physics - Theory
We construct fully gauge-invariant kinetic terms for open and closed string field theories on a target space with boundary. This is realized by promoting the gauge parameters at the boundary to extra dynamical modes describing boundary degrees of freedom. Having a gauge-invariant classical action, we also construct the corresponding BV master action and show that the master equation is obeyed thanks to a peculiar nilpotent structure of the BV kinetic operator. From this general construction we explicitly derive free actions for massless and massive modes of open and closed strings propagating on a target with a boundary, including linear-dilaton backgrounds.
title Gauge-invariant action for free string field theory with boundary
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05969