Light-cone reduction of Witten's open string field theory

Abstract

We elucidate some exact relations between light-cone and covariant string field theories on the basis of the homological perturbation lemma for $A_{\infty }$. The covariant string field splits into the light-cone string field and trivial excitations of BRST quartets: The latter generates the gauge symmetry and covariance. We first show that the reduction of gauge degrees can be performed by applying the lemma, which gives a refined version of the no-ghost theorem of covariant strings. Then, we demonstrate that after the reduction, gauge-fixed theory can be regarded as a kind of effective field theory and it provides an exact gauge-fixing procedure taking into account interactions. As a result, a novel light-cone string field theory is obtained from Witten's open string field theory.

arXiv commentPublished version: section3.4 refined, 20 + 6 pages

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