Abstract
We describe a field theoretic formulation for one-dimensional string theory. It is given by the collective field representation of the matrix model and leads to a physical interpretation of the theory as that of a massless scalar field in two dimensions. The additional dimension, coming from the large-N color of the matrix model, has an extent which goes to infinity in the continuum limit. The interactions of the field theory are non-zero only at the boundaries of this additional dimension.
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- 05
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- 21
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- 1639-1650
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Sumit R. Das,
Antal Jevicki
(1990).
STRING FIELD THEORY AND PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF D=1 STRINGS.
Modern Physics Letters A
, 05
(21)
, 1639-1650.
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732390001888
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- 10.1142/s0217732390001888