Quantcast
  • Register
PhysicsOverflow is a next-generation academic platform for physicists and astronomers, including a community peer review system and a postgraduate-level discussion forum analogous to MathOverflow.

Welcome to PhysicsOverflow! PhysicsOverflow is an open platform for community peer review and graduate-level Physics discussion.

Please help promote PhysicsOverflow ads elsewhere if you like it.

News

PO is now at the Physics Department of Bielefeld University!

New printer friendly PO pages!

Migration to Bielefeld University was successful!

Please vote for this year's PhysicsOverflow ads!

Please do help out in categorising submissions. Submit a paper to PhysicsOverflow!

... see more

Tools for paper authors

Submit paper
Claim Paper Authorship

Tools for SE users

Search User
Reclaim SE Account
Request Account Merger
Nativise imported posts
Claim post (deleted users)
Import SE post

Users whose questions have been imported from Physics Stack Exchange, Theoretical Physics Stack Exchange, or any other Stack Exchange site are kindly requested to reclaim their account and not to register as a new user.

Public \(\beta\) tools

Report a bug with a feature
Request a new functionality
404 page design
Send feedback

Attributions

(propose a free ad)

Site Statistics

205 submissions , 163 unreviewed
5,082 questions , 2,232 unanswered
5,355 answers , 22,793 comments
1,470 users with positive rep
820 active unimported users
More ...

  Physical interpretation of the differential equation of the Schwarz-Christoffel map in string theory?

+ 2 like - 0 dislike
1257 views

In complex analysis, the Schwarz-Christoffel map is known for taking a polygon in the complex plain to the upper half of the complex plain, with the vertices getting mapped to the real line.

In string theory, this is used to obtain a canonical representation of worldsheets (which can be considered to be limits of polygons).

For the worldsheet of a string splitting into two strings, the differential equation of the Schwarz-Christoffel map $w(z)$ is given by

\(\frac{dw}{dz} = A\frac{(z-x^{*})}{(z+1)(z-1)}\)

where $x^{3}$ is the point of interaction. I naively read the right hand side as being proportional to the pole on the real axis corresponding to the incoming string, devided by the poles corresponding to the two outgoing strings. If my interpretation is right, does this hold for maps of worldsheets for more complicated interactions too, such that the poles corresponding to the incoming (on shell) strings always appear in the numerator and the poles of the outgoing (on shell) strings in the denominator of a similar differential equation for the corresponding Schwarz-Christoffel map? Are these differential equations somehow related to the S-matrix?

asked Jun 7, 2014 in Theoretical Physics by Dilaton (6,240 points) [ revision history ]
edited Jun 7, 2014 by Dilaton

Have to proofread this later ...

Your answer

Please use answers only to (at least partly) answer questions. To comment, discuss, or ask for clarification, leave a comment instead.
To mask links under text, please type your text, highlight it, and click the "link" button. You can then enter your link URL.
Please consult the FAQ for as to how to format your post.
This is the answer box; if you want to write a comment instead, please use the 'add comment' button.
Live preview (may slow down editor)   Preview
Your name to display (optional):
Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications.
Anti-spam verification:
If you are a human please identify the position of the character covered by the symbol $\varnothing$ in the following word:
p$\hbar$ysicsOverfl$\varnothing$w
Then drag the red bullet below over the corresponding character of our banner. When you drop it there, the bullet changes to green (on slow internet connections after a few seconds).
Please complete the anti-spam verification




user contributions licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required

Your rights
...