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String theory [1, 170, 171, 172, 347, 348, 349] describes (quantized) relativistic one-dimensional objects (called strings) propagating in D-dimensional space-time. The very idea of string theory originated from the efforts to describe quark confinement and Regge trajectories of hadrons. Superstring theory was later applied for a construction of quantum gravity. A string action defined in curved spacetime is described by NLSM. In this chapter we discuss the relation between the NLSM and strings.
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Ketov, S.V. (2000). NLSM and Strings. In: Quantum Non-linear Sigma-Models. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04192-5_6
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