Literature

The aim of this page is to list all the literature published on string field theory (SFT). Papers are sorted by topic and listed chronologically from the more recent to older. Contact us if we have missed a paper.

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1 Construction and structure
1.1 Open bosonic string
1.2 Closed bosonic string
1.3 Superstring
1.4 Homotopy algebras
2 Consistency of string theory
3 String amplitudes
3.1 Instantons
3.2 2d string amplitudes
4 Effective actions
5 Light-cone SFT

Construction and structure

Open bosonic string

  • Theodore Erler, Hiroaki Matsunaga – Mapping between Witten and Lightcone String Field Theories (2020), arXiv:2012.09521
  • Harold Erbin, Carlo Maccaferri, Martin Schnabl, Jakub Vošmera – Classical algebraic structures in string theory effective actions (2020), arXiv:2006.16270

Closed bosonic string

Superstring

Homotopy algebras

  • Theodore Erler, Hiroaki Matsunaga – Mapping between Witten and Lightcone String Field Theories (2020), arXiv:2012.09521
  • Harold Erbin, Carlo Maccaferri, Martin Schnabl, Jakub Vošmera – Classical algebraic structures in string theory effective actions (2020), arXiv:2006.16270
  • Toru Masuda, Hiroaki Matsunaga – Perturbative path-integral of string field and the A∞ structure of the BV master equation (2020), arXiv:2003.05021

Consistency of string theory

  • Ashoke Sen – Cutkosky Rules and Unitarity (Violation) in D-instanton Amplitudes (2020), arXiv:2012.00041

String amplitudes

Instantons

  • Ashoke Sen – D-instantons, String Field Theory and Two Dimensional String Theory (2020), arXiv:2012.11624
  • Ashoke Sen – Cutkosky Rules and Unitarity (Violation) in D-instanton Amplitudes (2020), arXiv:2012.00041
  • Ashoke Sen – D-instanton Perturbation Theory (2020), arXiv:2002.04043

2d string amplitudes

  • Ashoke Sen, D-instantons – String Field Theory and Two Dimensional String Theory (2020), arXiv:2012.11624
  • Ashoke Sen – Cutkosky Rules and Unitarity (Violation) in D-instanton Amplitudes (2020), arXiv:2012.00041
  • Ashoke Sen – Divergent to Complex Amplitudes in Two Dimensional String Theory (2020), arXiv:2003.12076
  • Ashoke Sen – D-instanton Perturbation Theory (2020), arXiv:2002.04043

Effective actions

  • Toru Masuda, Hiroaki Matsunaga – Perturbative path-integral of string field and the A∞ structure of the BV master equation (2020), arXiv:2003.05021

Light-cone SFT

  • Harold Erbin, Carlo Maccaferri, Martin Schnabl, Jakub Vošmera – Classical algebraic structures in string theory effective actions (2020), arXiv:2006.16270
  • Theodore Erler, Hiroaki Matsunaga – Mapping between Witten and Lightcone String Field Theories (2020), arXiv:2012.09521