p-Adic open string amplitudes with Chan-Paton factors coupled to a constant B-field

Abstract

We establish rigorously the regularization of the p-adic open string amplitudes, with Chan-Paton rules and a constant B-field, introduced by Ghoshal and Kawano. In this study we use techniques of multivariate local zeta functions depending on multiplicative characters and a phase factor which involves an antisymmetric bilinear form. These local zeta functions are new mathematical objects. We attach to each amplitude a multivariate local zeta function depending on the kinematic parameters, the B-field and the Chan-Paton factors. We show that these integrals admit meromorphic continuations in the kinematic parameters. This result allows us to regularize the Ghoshal-Kawano amplitudes. The regularized amplitudes do not have ultraviolet divergencies. Due to the need for a certain symmetry, the theory works only for prime numbers which are congruent to 3 modulo 4. We also discuss the limit p→1 in the noncommutative effective field theory and in the Ghoshal-Kawano amplitudes. We show that in the case of four points, the limit p→1 of the regularized Ghoshal-Kawano amplitudes coincides with the Feynman amplitudes attached to the limit p→1 of the noncommutative Gerasimov-Shatashvili Lagrangian.