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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL
卷 47, 期 35, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/47/35/355402
关键词
string theory; nonlocal theories and models; string field theory
资金
- i-Link cooperation programme of CSIC [i-Link0484]
We discuss an aspect of string theory which has been tackled from many different perspectives, but incompletely: the role of nonlocality in the theory and its relation to the geometric shape of the string. In particular, we will describe in quantitative terms how one can zoom out from an extended object such as a string in such a way that, at sufficiently large scales, it appears structureless. Since there are no free parameters in free-string theory, the notion of large scales will be unambiguously determined. In other words, we will be able to answer the question: how and at which scale can the string be seen as a particle? In doing so, we will employ the concept of spectral dimension in a new way with respect to its usual applications in quantum gravity. The operational notions of worldsheet and target spacetime dimension in string theory are also clarified and found to be in mutual agreement.
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