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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2003 Volume 77, Issue 6, Pages 309–313 (Mi jetpl2757)

FIELDS, PARTICLES, AND NUCLEI

Feigenbaum universality in String theory

I. I. Koganab, D. Polyakovc

a Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Oxford University
b Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Russian Federation State Scientific Center), Moscow
c Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics

Abstract: Brane-like vertex operators, defining backgrounds with the ghost-matter mixing in NSR superstring theory, play an important role in a world-sheet formulation of D-branes and M theory, being creation operators for extended objects in the second quantized formalism. In this paper we show that dilaton's beta function in ghost-matter mixing backgrounds becomes stochastic. The renormalization group (RG) equations in ghost-matter mixing backgrounds lead to non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equations which solutions describe superstrings in curved space-times with brane-like metrics. We show that Feigenbaum universality constant $\delta=4,669\dots$ describing transitions from order to chaos in a huge variety of dynamical systems, appears analytically in these RG equations. We find that the appearance of this constant is related to the scaling of relative space-time curvatures at fixed points of the RG flow. In this picture the fixed points correspond to the period doubling of Feigenbaum iterational schemes.

PACS: 74.50.+r, 74.80.Fp

Received: 23.12.2002
Revised: 10.02.2003

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2003, 77:6, 260–265

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