Noncommutative Field Theory from String Theory: Two-loop Analysis

Abstract

Noncommutative \phi^3 field theory in six dimensions exhibits the logarithmic UV/IR mixing at the two-loop order. We show that open string theory in the presence of constant background NS-NS two-form field yields the same amplitude upon taking a decoupling limit. The stretched string picture proposed on the basis of one-loop analysis naturally generalizes to the two-loop amplitudes in consideration. Our string theory formulation can incorporate the closed string insertions as well as open string insertions. Furthermore, the analysis of the world-sheet partition function and propagators can be straightforwardly generalized to Riemann surfaces with genus zero but with an arbitrary number of boundaries.