Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2025)

Closed string amplitudes around tachyon vacuum solution in Kaku theory

  • Yuji Ando

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2025)029
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2025, no. 4
pp. 1 – 20

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Abstract We incorporate closed string field into Kaku’s open string field theory which is defined using Kaku vertex, and we construct open-closed string field theory. To do this, we define new consistent open-closed vertex and open-open-closed vertex with the Kaku vertex. Because these vertices depend on Chan-Paton parameter such as the Kaku vertex, the open-closed string field theory action that we construct depends on the Chan-Paton parameter such as the Kaku’s theory action. However, we can show that an infinitesimal change in l corresponds to a field redefinition. Furthermore, we compute closed string amplitudes around tachyon vacuum solution in this theory. As a result, we confirm that these amplitudes are conventional pure closed string amplitudes on surfaces without boundaries.

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