Twisted sector

Twisted sector

In theoretical physics, a twisted sector is a subspace of the full Hilbert space of closed string states in a particular theory over a (good) orbifold.

In the first quantized formalism of string theory (or maybe just plain old 2D conformal field theory) the target space is an orbifold M/G if the observables of the string are only defined modulo G. Consequently, the value of the field after one cycle around the closed string need only be the same as its original value modulo some G transformation.

i.e. there exists some gin G such that

:X(sigma+2pi, au)=g [X(sigma, au)]

For each conjugacy class of G, we have a different superselection sector (wrt the worldsheet). The conjugacy class consisting of the identity gives rise to the untwisted sector and all the other conjugacy classes give rise to twisted sectors. It's easy to see that since the observables are only modulo G, two different g's which are conjugate to each other give rise to the same sector.

In the second quantized formalism, the different sectors give rise to different orbifold projections.


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