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Time Evolution in String Field Theory and T-duality

Anton Ilderton, Paul Mansfield

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0410267

Abstract

The time evolution operator (Schrödinger functional) of quantum field theory can be expressed in terms of first quantised particles moving on the orbifold S1/Z2. We give a graphical derivation of this that generalises to second quantised string theory. T-duality then relates evolution through time t with evolution through 1/t and an interchange of string fields and backgrounds.

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