Exact Answers to Approximate Questions: Noncommutative Dipoles, Open Wilson Lines, and UV-IR Duality
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In this lecture, I put forward conjectures asserting that, in all noncommutative field theories, (1) open Wilson lines and their descendants constitute a complete set of interpolating operators of `noncommutative dipoles', obeying dipole relation, (2) infrared dynamics of the noncommutative dipoles is dual to ultraviolet dynamics of the elementary noncommutative fields, and (3) open string field theory is a sort of noncommutative field theory, whose open Wilson lines are interpolating operators for closed strings. I substantiate these conjectures by various intuitive arguments and explicit computations of one- and two-loop Feynman diagrammatics.
short lecture at 2001 Les Houches summer school
short lecture at 2001 Les Houches summer school