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most citedPhoton emission from an excited string

22 citations · 37 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

hep-th2026

One-loop mass corrections of interacting string states

Lorenzo Grimaldi, Massimo Bianchi, Maurizio Firrotta

The free string spectrum is highly degenerate, with a degeneracy that grows exponentially with the mass. Turning on a non-vanishing string coupling introduces interactions, r…

hep-th2025

Searching for Kerr in string amplitudes

Francesco Alessio, Paolo Di Vecchia, Maurizio Firrotta +1

We continue the approach of [1] to attempt to reproduce the classical electromagnetic current of the solution from the infinite-spin limit of a three-point a…

hep-th2024

Scattering, Absorption and Emission of Highly Excited Strings

Maurizio Firrotta, Elias Kiritsis, Vasilis Niarchos

We study tree-level scattering processes of arbitrary string states using the DDF formalism and suitable coherent vertex operators. We obtain new exact compact formulae for heavy-h…

hep-th2024

Veneziano and Shapiro-Virasoro amplitudes of arbitrarily excited strings

Maurizio Firrotta

We extend the Veneziano and Shapiro-Virasoro amplitudes to four arbitrarily excited states in bosonic string theory. We use the formalism of coherent string states based on the Di…

hep-th2023★ 15 cited

The chaotic emergence of thermalization in highly excited string decays

Maurizio Firrotta

We analyse the most general process of a generic highly excited string that decays into a less excited, yet generic, highly excited string emitting a tachyon. We provide a simple a…

hep-th2022★ 22 cited

Photon emission from an excited string

Maurizio Firrotta, Vladimir Rosenhaus

We compute the amplitude for an excited string in any precisely specified state to decay into another excited string in any precisely specified state, via emission of a tachyon or…