TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.2.044
TI  - Open string stub as an auxiliary string field
PY  - 2024/08/09
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.2.044
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
SP  - 044
A1  - Erbin, Harold
AU  - Firat, Atakan Hilmi
AB  - Witten's open string field theory with a generalized version of stubs is reformulated as a cubic string field theory using an auxiliary string field. The gauge symmetries and equations of motion as well as the associative algebra of the resulting theory are investigated. Integrating out either the original or auxiliary field is shown to recover the conventional cubic theory. Our analysis demonstrates that deformations due to the stubs can be described as a homotopy transfer purely in the context of strong deformation retract. We also discuss to what extent the vertex regions resulting from stubs provide a model for the elementary interactions of closed string field theory.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.2.044,
	title={{Open string stub as an auxiliary string field}},
	author={Harold Erbin and Atakan Hilmi Firat},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={17},
	pages={044},
	year={2024},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.2.044},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.2.044},
}