Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We argue that duality symmetries can be manifestly realized when theories with these symmetries are quantized using phase space quantum theory. In particular, using background fields and phase space quantum theory, we quantize the bosonic string and show that it has SO(26,26) symmetry, even when the string is not compactified on a torus.
Authors: Thomas Curtright, Peter West
Institutions: University of Miami, King's College London, University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4416393259