Introduction to string field theory

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• Double Field Theory
• Generalized metric formulation of double field theory
• Perturbative Quantum Field Theory in the String-Inspired Formalism
• Background independent action for double field theory
• Double Field Theory: A Pedagogical Review
• The gauge algebra of double field theory and Courant brackets
• M(atrix) Theory: Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Fundamental Theory
• The Spacetime of Double Field Theory: Review, Remarks, and Outlook
• Higher derived brackets and homotopy algebras
• Dynamics with Infinitely Many Time Derivatives and Rolling Tachyons
• n-ary algebras: a review with applications
• Doubled α'-Geometry
• Time Evolution in Open String Theory
• $L_{\infty }$ Algebras and Field Theory
• T-duality and closed string non-commutative (doubled) geometry
• Dynamics with Infinitely Many Derivatives: The Initial Value Problem
• Closed Strings as Imaginary D-branes
• Split string field theory I
• Holographic dual of free field theory
• Double Field Theory at Order ${\alpha }^{\prime }$
• Higher-Spin Interactions: four-point functions and beyond
• Non-Geometric Fluxes in Supergravity and Double Field Theory
• Cutkosky Rules for Superstring Field Theory
• Closed Superstring Field Theory and its Applications
• Towards Covariant Quantization of the Supermembrane
• BV Master Action for Heterotic and Type II String Field Theories
• Parent field theory and unfolding in BRST first-quantized terms
• $L_{\infty }$-Algebras of Classical Field Theories and the Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism
• Noncommutative homotopy algebras associated with open strings
• Nonlocal quantum gravity and M-theory
• Nonlocal gravity and the diffusion equation
• A Closed String Tachyon Vacuum ?
• Resolving Witten's Superstring Field Theory
• Chern-Simons Gauge Theory coupled with BF Theory
• Off-shell Amplitudes in Superstring Theory
• WZW-like Action for Heterotic String Field Theory
• Analytical Solutions of Open String Field Theory
• Split string field theory II
• Double Copy from Homotopy Algebras
• Cosmological tachyon from cubic string field theory
• Analytic solutions for marginal deformations in open superstring field theory
• Real analytic solutions for marginal deformations in open superstring field theory
• Double Field Theory on Group Manifolds
• The Ramond Sector of Open Superstring Field Theory
• Homotopy algebras inspired by classical open-closed string field theory
• Boundary Superstring Field Theory
• Marginal deformations in string field theory
• Twisted Tachyon Condensation in Closed String Field Theory
• Solutions from boundary condition changing operators in open string field theory
• NS-NS Sector of Closed Superstring Field Theory
• Tropical Amplitudes
• Homotopy Algebra Morphism and Geometry of Classical String Field Theory
• Mass Renormalization in String Theory: General States
• Towards an invariant geometry of double field theory
• Vertex Operators for Closed Superstrings
• Complete Action for Open Superstring Field Theory with Cyclic $A_{\infty }$ Structure
• Wilsonian Effective Action of Superstring Theory
• Super-accelerating bouncing cosmology in asymptotically-free non-local gravity
• Heterotic String Field Theory
• String Field Theory -- A Modern Introduction
• Four Lectures on Closed String Field Theory
• Mirror symmetry in two steps: A-I-B
• A higher stacky perspective on Chern-Simons theory
• Unitarity of Superstring Field Theory
• The boundary state from open string fields
• On the relation between open and closed topological strings
• Closed strings from nothing
• Scattering Amplitude Recursion Relations in BV Quantisable Theories
• Mass Renormalization in String Theory: Special States
• Connecting Solutions in Open String Field Theory with Singular Gauge Transformations
• BV Quantization of Topological Open Membranes
• Gauge Invariant 1PI Effective Superstring Field Theory: Inclusion of the Ramond Sector
• String Field Theory as World-sheet UV Regulator
• Closed/open string diagrammatics
• Complete action for open superstring field theory
• Open superstring field theory I: gauge fixing, ghost structure, and propagator
• On the worldsheet theories of strings dual to free large N gauge theories
• Tachyon Condensation: Calculations in String Field Theory
• Normalization of D-instanton Amplitudes
• Rolling Closed String Tachyons and the Big Crunch
• Boundary State from Ellwood Invariants
• On the classical equivalence of superstring field theories
• Towards a manifestly supersymmetric action for 11-dimensional supergravity
• D-instantons, String Field Theory and Two Dimensional String Theory
• Analytic solution for tachyon condensation in open string field theory
• Cohomology theories for homotopy algebras and noncommutative geometry
• Conformal Field Theory and Algebraic Structure of Gauge Theory
• Gauge invariant double copy of Yang-Mills theory: the quartic theory
• Invariances and Equations of Motion in Double Field Theory
• Quantum Open-Closed Homotopy Algebra and String Field Theory
• Four Lectures on Analytic Solutions in Open String Field Theory
• BCOV theory via Givental group action on cohomological field theories
• The Gauge Structure of Double Field Theory follows from Yang-Mills Theory
• Solutions from boundary condition changing operators in open superstring field theory
• $L_{\infty }$-algebras and the perturbiner expansion
• Hyperbolic three-string vertex
• Hamiltonian BRST and Batalin-Vilkovisky formalisms for second quantization of gauge theories
• Interactions in Higher-Spin Gravity: a Holographic Perspective
• From the Berkovits formulation to the Witten formulation in open superstring field theory
• Classical algebraic structures in string theory effective actions
• Non-Commutative Batalin-Vilkovisky Algebras, Homotopy Lie Algebras and the Courant Bracket
• Towards an M5-Brane Model I: A 6d Superconformal Field Theory
• Comments on worldsheet theories dual to free large N gauge theories
• Open-closed Hyperbolic String Vertices
• Classical Open-String Field Theory ; $A_{\infty }$-Algebra, Renormalization Group and Boundary States
• Finite deformations from a heterotic superpotential: holomorphic Chern--Simons and an $L_{\infty }$ algebra
• Open-closed homotopy algebra in mathematical physics
• Ramond Equations of Motion in Superstring Field Theory
• Quantum $L_{\infty }$ Algebras and the Homological Perturbation Lemma
• Einstein gravity from the $\mathbb{N}=4$ spinning particle
• Comments on Entanglement Entropy in String Theory
• Type II Superstring Field Theory: Geometric Approach and Operadic Description
• Closed Bosonic String Field Theory At Quartic Order
• Gauge independent kinematic algebra of self-dual Yang-Mills theory
• The ZZ annulus one-point function in non-critical string theory: A string field theory analysis
• Cyclicity of non-associative products on D-branes
• On a worldsheet dual of the Gaussian matrix model
• $A_{\infty }$ structure from the Berkovits formulation of open superstring field theory
• Homotopy Lie Superalgebra in Yang-Mills Theory
• Homotopy algebras and noncommutative geometry
• Closed Bosonic String Field Theory at Quintic Order: Five-Tachyon Contact Term and Dilaton Theorem
• On the Open-Closed B-Model
• Topological Open Membranes
• Constrained BV Description of String Field Theory
• Relational observables in 2d quantum gravity
• Testing Closed String Field Theory with Marginal Fields
• Background Independence of Closed Superstring Field Theory
• Minimal-area metrics on the Swiss cross and punctured torus
• Formal Maurer-Cartan Structures: from CFT to Classical Field Equations
• Generalized Poisson sigma models
• Graded Lagrangians, exotic topological D-branes and enhanced triangulated categories
• Leibniz Gauge Theories and Infinity Structures
• Quantum Gravity from Timelike Liouville theory
• Closed String Cohomology in Open String Field Theory
• Mapping between Witten and Lightcone String Field Theories
• Ghost Structure and Closed Strings in Vacuum String Field Theory
• String Perturbation Theory Around Dynamically Shifted Vacuum
• Closed Bosonic String Field Theory at Quintic Order II: Marginal Deformations and Effective Potential
• The S-Matrix of superstring field theory
• Higher-loop amplitudes in the non-minimal pure spinor formalism
• Vertex algebras and quantum master equation
• Modeling Quantum Gravity Effects in Inflation
• Background Independent Double Field Theory at Order ${\alpha }^{\prime }$: Metric vs. Frame-like Geometry
• Non-commutative deformation of Chern-Simons theory
• Tachyon condensation in boundary string field theory at one loop
• On Background Independence and Duality Invariance in String Theory
• Supersymmetry Restoration in Superstring Perturbation Theory
• Bootstrapping closed string field theory
• $L_{\infty }$-Algebras, the BV Formalism, and Classical Fields
• Field theory actions for ambitwistor string and superstring
• On the Uniqueness of L${}_{\infty }$ bootstrap: Quasi-isomorphisms are Seiberg-Witten Maps
• Leibniz-Chern-Simons Theory and Phases of Exceptional Field Theory
• Holographic Matter : Deconfined String at Criticality
• Dilaton Deformations in Closed String Field Theory
• Tensor hierarchy algebras and extended geometry II: Gauge structure and dynamics
• Open string field theory with stubs
• $L_{\infty }$ algebras for extended geometry from Borcherds superalgebras
• BV Yang-Mills as a Homotopy Chern-Simons via SFT
• The off-shell Veneziano amplitude in Schnabl gauge
• On the exceptional generalised Lie derivative for $d\ge 7$
• Locality, Causality, and an Initial Value Formulation for Open String Field Theory
• Perturbed Beta-Gamma Systems and Complex Geometry
• Braided Symmetries in Noncommutative Field Theory
• SFT-inspired Algebraic Structures in Gauge Theories
• Divergent to Complex Amplitudes in Two Dimensional String Theory
• Cosmology of the closed string tachyon
• Open superstring field theory based on the supermoduli space
• Schnabl's Solution and Boundary States in Open String Field Theory
• UV Completion on the Worldline
• A tachyon lump in closed string field theory
• The classical cosmological constant of open-closed string field theory
• Cutkosky Rules and Unitarity (Violation) in D-instanton Amplitudes
• A Riccati type PDE for light-front higher helicity vertices
• Odd Scalar Curvature in Anti-Poisson Geometry
• Reality of Superstring Field Theory Action
• One Loop Tadpole in Heterotic String Field Theory
• Field Redefinitions, T-duality and Solutions in Closed String Field Theories
• Hyperbolic string tadpole
• Slightly Broken Higher Spin Symmetry: General Structure of Correlators
• A toy model of open membrane field theory in constant 3-form flux
• Boundary states as exact solutions of (vacuum) closed string field theory
• Nonlinear gauge invariance and WZW-like action for NS-NS superstring field theory
• Entanglement with Centers
• Adjusted Parallel Transport for Higher Gauge Theories
• Perturbative Double Field Theory on General Backgrounds
• Bosonic sectorized strings and the $(DF{)}^2$ theory
• Lie 2-algebra models
• Higher Gauge Structures in Double and Exceptional Field Theory
• $L_{\infty }$ algebras and Tensor Hierarchies in Exceptional Field Theory and Gauged Supergravity
• Heterotic string field theory with cyclic L-infinity structure
• Testing the Uniqueness of the Open Bosonic String Field Theory Vacuum
• Open string stub as an auxiliary string field
• Off-Shell Interactions for Closed-String Tachyons
• Gravitizing the Quantum
• M-theory from the Superpoint
• Higgs Mechanism in Nonlocal Field Theories
• Triple Interference, Non-linear Talbot Effect and Gravitization of the Quantum
• Hyperbolic Geometry and Closed Bosonic String Field Theory I: The String Vertices Via Hyperbolic Riemann Surfaces
• $L_{\infty }$-Algebra Models and Higher Chern-Simons Theories
• An Abstract Interface to Higher Spin Gauge Field Theory
• Vertical Integration from the Large Hilbert Space
• Closed string theory without level-matching at the free level
• QFT with Stubs
• Toric varieties of Loday's associahedra and noncommutative cohomological field theories
• From Zwiebach invariants to Getzler relation
• Democratic Superstring Field Theory: Gauge Fixing
• Toy models for closed string tachyon solitons
• The nonperturbative closed string tachyon vacuum to high level
• A Superstring Field Theory for Supergravity
• Quasiclassical Lian-Zuckerman Homotopy Algebras, Courant Algebroids and Gauge Theory
• Construction of action for heterotic string field theory including the Ramond sector
• Unimodular homotopy algebras and Chern-Simons theory
• A Lie based 4-dimensional higher Chern-Simons theory
• Tautological relations in Hodge field theory
• $L_{\infty }$-Algebras of Einstein-Cartan-Palatini Gravity
• Hyperbolic Geometry and Closed Bosonic String Field Theory II: The Rules for Evaluating the Quantum BV Master Action
• T-duality of D-brane action at order ${\alpha }^{\prime }$ in bosonic string theory
• The Non-Abelian Self-Dual String and the (2,0)-Theory
• Construction of a Gauge-Invariant Action for Type II Superstring Field Theory
• Symmetry Factors of Feynman Diagrams and the Homological Perturbation Lemma
• Connections between reflected entropies and hyperbolic string vertices
• Minimal models of field theories: SDYM and SDGR
• Poisson-Jacobi reduction of homogeneous tensors
• A toy model for background independent string field theory
• Courant sigma model and $L_{\infty }$-algebras
• Correlation functions of scalar field theories from homotopy algebras
• r${}_{\infty }$-Matrices, triangular L${}_{\infty }$-bialgebras, and quantum${}_{\infty }$ groups
• Localization of effective actions in Heterotic String Field Theory
• Double field theory algebroid and curved $L_{\infty }$-algebras
• $A_{\infty }$ Algebras from Slightly Broken Higher Spin Symmetries
• Strong Homotopy Lie Algebras, Generalized Nahm Equations and Multiple M2-branes
• AKSZ constructions for topological membranes on $G_2$-manifolds
• Homotopy algebra of open-closed strings
• On surface states and star-subalgebras in string field theory
• Cardy states, factorization and idempotency in closed string field theory
• On the CSFT approach to localized closed string tachyons
• One-Loop $\beta$ Function of the Double Sigma Model with Constant Background
• Symmetries and Feynman Rules for Ramond Sector in Open Superstring Field Theory
• $\mathcal{W}$ algebras are L${}_{\infty }$ algebras
• Perturbative Quantum Field Theory and Homotopy Algebras
• Consequences of Godel Theorems on Third Quantized Theories Like String Field Theory and Group Field Theory
• Wilsonian effective potentials and closed string field theory
• String vertices for the large $N$ limit
• Gauge Invariant Perturbation Theory via Homotopy Transfer
• Generalized Higher Gauge Theory
• Open Wilson Lines as States of Closed String
• Boundary terms in string field theory
• On-shell equivalence of two formulations for superstring field theory
• Comments on complete actions for open superstring field theory
• Homotopy Algebras in Higher Spin Theory
• The Ramond Sector of Heterotic String Field Theory
• Closed string deformations in open string field theory I: bosonic string
• Minimal models of quantum homotopy Lie algebras via the BV-formalism
• Closed String Field Theory with Dynamical D-brane
• $A_{\infty }/L_{\infty }$ structure and alternative action for WZW-like superstring field theory
• Light-cone reduction of Witten's open string field theory
• Gauge Transformation of Double Field Theory for Open String
• Beta-gamma systems and the deformations of the BRST operator
• Delays in Open String Field Theory
• Gauge invariant and gauge fixed actions for various higher-spin fields from string field theory
• Super Chern-Simons Theory: BV-formalism and $A_{\infty }$-algebras
• Notes on the Wess-Zumino-Witten-like structure: $L_{\infty }$ triplet and NS-NS superstring field theory
• Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory as Higher Chern-Simons Theory
• Cardy states as idempotents of fusion ring in string field theory
• A Universality in PP-Waves
• On Background Independence in String Theory
• From Matrices to Strings and Back
• Dimensional Reduction of the Generalized DBI
• On manifestly sp(2) invariant formulation of quadratic higher spin Lagrangians
• Asymptotic symmetry groups and operator algebras
• On the Conformal Field Theories for Bosonic Strings in PP-Waves
• Is Quantum Gravity a Chern-Simons Theory?
• Higher Structures in M-Theory
• Topological M Theory from Pure Spinor Formalism
• Boundary Conditions and the Generalized Metric Formulation of the Double Sigma Model
• Characterizing 4-string contact interaction using machine learning
• The Algebra of Diffeomorphisms from the World Sheet
• Type II superstring field theory with cyclic L-infinity structure
• Ambitwistor String Theory in the Operator Formalism
• Topological string entanglement
• Flat family of QFTs and quantization of d-algebras
• Anomaly cancellation in the topological string
• On the L${}_{\infty }$ structure of Poisson gauge theory
• Higher Gauge Theory and Integrability
• Tree-level S-matrix of superstring field theory with homotopy algebra structure
• Perturbative path-integral of string field and the $A_{\infty }$ structure of the BV master equation
• More on stubs in open string field theory
• Thick morphisms, higher Koszul brackets, and $L_{\infty }$-algebroids
• On deformations of $A_{\infty }$-algebras
• Electric-Magnetic Dualities in Non-Abelian and Non-Commutative Gauge Theories
• Symmetries and Feynman Rules for Ramond Sector in Heterotic String Field Theory
• Nonperturbative definition of closed string theory via open string field theory
• Multiloop Amplitudes of Light-cone Gauge Superstring Field Theory: Odd Spin Structure Contributions
• Homotopy Classification of Bosonic String Field Theory
• Instanton amplitudes in open-closed topological string theory
• First-Order Equations of Motion for Heterotic String Field Theory
• First Order String Theory and the Kodaira-Spencer Equations. I
• Topological recursion for hyperbolic string field theory
• Sliver frame stubs in OSFT via auxiliary fields
• Field Theory Equivalences as Spans of $L_{\infty }$-algebras
• TFD Extension of Open String Field Theory
• First Order String Theory and the Kodaira-Spencer Equations. II
• Gauge Invariance and Equations of Motion for Closed String Modes
• Gauge Invariant Exact Renormalization Group and Perfect Actions in the Open Bosonic String Theory
• An existence theorem, with energy bounds, of Floer's perturbed Cauchy-Riemann equation with jumping discontinuity
• Imaginary time D-branes to all orders
• Reviving 3D $\mathcal{N}=8$ superconformal field theories
• From operads and PROPs to Feynman Processes
• Nonperturbative correlation functions from homotopy algebras
• Homotopy Algebras in String Field Theory
• Handle Operators in String Theory
• Path Integral Formulation with Deformed Antibracket
• Loop Variables and Gauge Invariant Exact Renormalization Group Equations for (Open) String Theory -II
• Loop Variables and Gauge Invariant Exact Renormalization Group Equations for (Open) String Theory
• Covariant phase space and $L_{\infty }$ algebras
• Quantum Gravity and Causal Structures: Second Quantization of Conformal Dirac Algebras
• Entanglement entropy and edge modes in topological string theory: I
• Basic curvature and the Atiyah cocycle in gauge theory
• Homotopy Lie Algebras of Gravity and their Braided Deformations
• Entanglement Entropy in Closed String Theory
• Higher curvature Bianchi identities, generalised geometry and $L_{\infty }$ algebras
• Loop Variables and Gauge Invariant Exact Renormalization Group Equations for Closed String Theory
• Closed string field theory in a-gauge
• Novel String Field Theory with also Negative Energy Constituents/Objects gives Veneziano Amplitude
• Hagedorn-like transition at high supersymmetry breaking scale
• $L_{\infty }$ algebras for extended geometry
• On Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism of Non-Commutative Field Theories
• Light-cone gauge superstring field theory in linear dilaton background
• Hyperbolic Geometry of Superstring Perturbation Theory
• 2D Black Hole and Holographic Renormalization Group
• Exact renormalization group in Batalin--Vilkovisky theory
• Homotopy Relations for Topological VOA
• Homological Quantum Field Theory
• Multiloop Amplitudes of Light-cone Gauge String Field Theory for Type II Superstrings
• Killing Horizons and Spinors
• Target Space Approach to Closed String Tachyons
• String theory in twistor space and minimal tension holography
• DeWitt-Virasoro construction in tensor representations
• Relation between the Reducibility Structures and between the Master Actions in the Witten Formulation and the Berkovits Formulation of Open Superstring Field Theory
• Correlation functions involving Dirac fields from homotopy algebras II: the interacting theory
• Algebraic Structures In Closed Superstring Field Theory, Homotopy Transfer And Effective Actions
• A-infinity structure in string theory and the Yang-Mills equation
• $A_{\infty }$ perspective to Sen's formalism
• L-Infinity Structures on Spaces with 3 One-Dimensional Components
• Correlation Functions Involving Dirac Fields from Homotopy Algebras I: The Free Theory
• The $L_{\infty }$-algebra of the S-matrix
• Lattice String Field Theory: The linear dilaton in one dimension
• Reformulation of Boundary String Field Theory in terms of Boundary State
• SL(2, $\mathbb{C}$) quartic vertex for closed string field theory
• On open-closed extension of boundary string field theory
• Out-of-time-order asymptotic observables are quasi-isomorphic to time-ordered amplitudes
• BV Quantization
• On the BV formalism of open superstring field theory in the large Hilbert space
• Operads and Maurer-Cartan spaces
• A twisted tale of cochains and connections
• On the Existence of an L${}_{\infty }$ structure for the Super-Virasoro Algebra
• Generalized symmetries as homotopy Lie algebras
• Torus Bundles, Automorphisms and T-Duality
• Open-closed moduli spaces and related algebraic structures
• Strings in Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds from the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond Formalism
• Gauged Double Field Theory as an $L_{\infty }$ algebra
• On the BV structure on the cohomology of moduli space
• Towards Hamiltonian Formalism for String Field Theory and Nonlocality
• $L_{\infty }$-algebras and membrane sigma models
• Compactified configuration space of points on a line and homotopies of $A_{\infty }$ morphisms
• Open superstring field theory including the Ramond sector based on the supermoduli space
• $A_{\infty }$ Action of Open $\mathcal{N}=2$ Superstring Field Theory
• Bulk deformations of open topological string theory
• Extremal Black Holes from Homotopy Algebras
• Singular field redefinition between Witten's string field theory and Witten's theory deformed by Ellwood invariant
• Type II superstring field theory revisited
• Lagrangian Relations and Quantum $L_{\infty }$ Algebras
• Low Energy Action of "Covariant" Superstring Field Theory in the NS-NS pp-Wave Background
• Algebra of Kodaira-Spencer Gravity and Deformation of Calabi-Yau Manifold
• The Biderivative and A_\infty-bialgebras
• String Scattering and Evolution of Ryu-Takayanagi Surface
• Supercritical linear dilaton capping state using Interpolating functions
• More Stringy Effects in Target Space from Double Field Theory
• UV Effects and Short-Lived Hawking Radiation: Alternative Resolution of Information Paradox