The nilpotent structure of open-closed string field theory
Carlo Maccaferri, Alberto Ruffino, Jakub Vošmera
Abstract
A bstract In this note we revisit the homotopy-algebraic structure of oriented bosonic open-closed string field theory and we give a new compact formulation in terms of a single cyclic open-closed co-derivation which defines a single nilpotent structure describing the consistency of generic open-closed off-shell amplitudes with arbitrary number of boundaries and at arbitrary genus.
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PhysicsNilpotentString field theoryHomotopyPure mathematicsString (physics)Field theory (psychology)Field (mathematics)Type I string theoryTheoretical physicsMathematical physicsMathematicsRelationship between string theory and quantum field theoryQuantum mechanicsQuantum gravityQuantumBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsHomotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic TopologyNonlinear Waves and Solitons