Collective Coordinates in String Theory

TL;DR

This paper discusses how violations of conformal invariance in string theory solitons lead to the necessity of collective coordinates, which act as wormhole parameters in the two-dimensional action.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of collective coordinates as wormhole parameters arising from conformal invariance violations in string theory solitons.

Findings

Violations of conformal invariance induce non-local operators.

Collective coordinates serve as wormhole parameters.

Implications for two-dimensional string theory actions.

Abstract

The emergence of violations of conformal invariance in the form of non-local operators in the two-dimensional action describing solitons inevitably leads to the introduction of collective coordinates as two dimensional ``wormhole parameters''.