Bosonic string with antisymmetric fields and a non-local Casimir effect

Abstract

The coupling, in a non-standard way, of a bosonic string theory with a dilaton and antisymmetric fields is investigated. By integrating over the antisymmetric fields, a Coulomb-like interaction term is generated. The static potential of a theory of this kind is obtained from the corresponding non-local zeta function, in some approximation. An interpretation of the static potential as a type of non-local Casimir effect is given.

8 pages,standard Latex

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