Quantum action for heterotic string field theory with quantum L-infinity structure
Abstract
We construct a quantum action for heterotic string field theory that satisfies the quantum Batalin-Vilkovisky equation. Assuming a triangulation of the bosonic moduli space, the prescription for inserting picture-changing operators is determined based on a quantum L-infinity structure. After concretely constructing some of the lower-order interactions, we propose a general prescription, which generalizes that for constructing the classical interactions governed by a classical L-infinity structure. Assuming it does not suffer from spurious poles, all quantum interactions are determined by iteratively solving differential equations and transforming the solutions via IBL-infinity-transfer. To demonstrate the consistency of our prescription, we compute the one-loop two-point functions (modulo the spurious pole issue) and show that they agree with those in the first-quantized formulation.
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BibTeX
@misc{gen2026quantum,
title = {{Quantum action for heterotic string field theory with quantum L-infinity structure}},
author = {Yasu Gen and Hiroshi Kunitomo and Jojiro Totsuka},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.07635},
eprint = {2611.07635},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07635},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Quantum action for heterotic string field theory with quantum L-infinity structure
AU - Yasu Gen
AU - Hiroshi Kunitomo
AU - Jojiro Totsuka
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.07635
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07635
AB - We construct a quantum action for heterotic string field theory that satisfies the quantum Batalin-Vilkovisky equation. Assuming a triangulation of the bosonic moduli space, the prescription for inserting picture-changing operators is determined based on a quantum L-infinity structure. After concretely constructing some of the lower-order interactions, we propose a general prescription, which generalizes that for constructing the classical interactions governed by a classical L-infinity structure. Assuming it does not suffer from spurious poles, all quantum interactions are determined by iteratively solving differential equations and transforming the solutions via IBL-infinity-transfer. To demonstrate the consistency of our prescription, we compute the one-loop two-point functions (modulo the spurious pole issue) and show that they agree with those in the first-quantized formulation.
ER -