Sunday, January 7, 2018

string theory - Where's the mass?


When you look a the Polyakov or Nambu-Goto action, you see a T for tension, but no mass. When you look the action of a relativistic particle, you see the m. See here.


So here's the question. Where is the mass in the String actions? For a classical relativistic string I would expect that the equations of motion have m appearing as a constant. In this case I am thinking that the mass is related to the tension. In the end, if particles are strings in different states, then I would expect the mass to depend on the state.




No comments:

Post a Comment

classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

I am studying Statics and saw that: The moment of a force about a given axis (or Torque) is defined by the equation: $M_X = (\vec r \times \...