Quantum Background Independence In String Theory
| dc.creator | Witten, Edward | |
| dc.date | 1993-06-23 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:19:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:19:30Z | |
| dc.description | Not only in physical string theories, but also in some highly simplified situations, background independence has been difficult to understand. It is argued that the ``holomorphic anomaly'' of Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri, and Vafa gives a fundamental explanation of some of the problems. Moreover, their anomaly equation can be interpreted in terms of a rather peculiar quantum version of background independence: in systems afflicted by the anomaly, background independence does not hold order by order in perturbation theory, but the exact partition function as a function of the coupling constants has a background independent interpretation as a state in an auxiliary quantum Hilbert space. The significance of this auxiliary space is otherwise unknown. | |
| dc.description | 20 pp | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9306122 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9306122 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/53575 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Quantum Background Independence In String Theory | |
| dc.type | text |