Metastring Theory, Stripology and Meta-D-branes - An Extension on the Formulation of String Theory in the Phase Space

In this book, we review the meta-string formulation proposed by Freidel, Leigh, Minic in a recent paper. Our work focusses on the construction of a closed-string world-sheet from gluing of Nakamura strips. We review the symplectic current formulation for determining the gluing condition for a single strip. We then study the two-strip scenario in a new notation to rigorously derive the boundary equations of motion and finally generalize our result to N-strips. We find the conjugate momenta to the strip separation variable and relate it to the midpoint velocity of a strip. We see the natural evolution of meta-D-branes in metastring theory from the strip picture. Finally, we motivate and show the connection of the strip picture to the string-bit picture put forward by Klebanov and Susskind and conjecture the relation to the Chan-Paton factors.

About the author

Sonali is a Chancellors PhD Fellow at the University of Sussex working on GR and theories of Quantum Gravity. She has a double masters in theoretical physics from PSI, Perimeter Institute, Canada and IISER-K, India. Her other interests include, poetry, literature and music.

Product details

• Authors: Sonali Mohapatra
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2016
• EAN: 9783659898594
• ISBN: 978-3-659-89859-4
• No. of pages: 52
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 96 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics