Strings in background electric field, space / time noncommutativity and a new noncritical string theory

By N. Seiberg, L. Susskind, N. Toumbas. 2000

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Searching for space/time noncommutativity we reconsider open strings in a constant background electric field. The main difference between this situation and its magnetic counterpart is that here there is a critical electric field beyond which the theory does not make sense. We show that this critical field prevents us from finding a limit in which the theory becomes a field theory on a noncommutative spacetime. However, an appropriate limit toward the critical field leads to a novel noncritical string theory on a noncommutative spacetime.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Non-relativistic superstrings: a new soluble sector of AdS5 × S5 (2005, background): “Quantizing open strings on a longitudinal D-brane leads to an AdS version of non-commutative open string theory (NCOS) [9][10].”
Space-time noncommutative field theories and unitarity (2000, methodology): “Recently, it has been noticed by several groups [ 20 ][21] that it is possible to define a”
Dipoles, Twists and Noncommutative Gauge Theory (2000, background): “It might be reminiscent of the NCOS theories [23, 32].”
Rolling Tachyon (2002, background): “From the general result of [32, 33, 34] it follows that the theory in the presence of the electric field can be related to the theory in the absence of electric field by rescaling the 00 and the 11 components of the metric, changing the overall normalization of the action, and replacing the ordinary”
Topological Open P-Branes (2000, background): “The bulk/boundary correspondences are exactly as of the generalized Deligne conjecture (a theorem of Kontsevich) in the algebraic world of p-algebras.”
Moyal Planes are Spectral Triples (2003, background): “Its bane is the trouble with both unitarity and causality [39, 78 ].”
OM theory in diverse dimensions (2000, methodology): “Weakly-coupled theories of open strings on D-branes were constructed by scaling to a critical electric field, and S-duality was used to argue that they decouple from closed strings[2,3].”
Towards strange metallic holography (2009, background): “As the critical field is approached, the effective value of the open string tension falls as 1/γ(2) [27, 28] and so the effective string length scale grows as γ.”
Observables of Non-Commutative Gauge Theories (2000, background): “A different approach to learn about gauge invariant operators in string theories might be to consider the S-dual description of the operators considered here which should be the natural operators in NCOS theories [26, 27, 28].”
IIA/B, wound and wrapped (2000, methodology): “It was pointed out in [ 4 , 12, 18] that this should yield the DLCQ IIA string theory.”