Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
 

Hiroaki Matsunaga

PhD:  University of Tokyo, 2015
   
2016 -  Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Postdoc
2015-16  Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
   
Email: zngfhantn@smh.pm
Phone: +420 26605 2048
Address: Office 210
Na Slovance 1999/2
182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic

 

I am interested in gauge theory, quantum gravity, string theory and their relations, and my current research theme is field theoretical formulation of string theory, string field theory.

Studies of string theory have provided us plenty of insights into a consistent quantum theory including gravity, which is one of the primary concern in theoretical physics.
However, non-perturbative aspects of string theory remain largely mysterious yet: it is defined only perturbatively with respect to a coupling constant on a given consistent background, and only on-shell scattering amplitudes can be calculated.
String field theory is one possible approach to these problems.

  • H. Matsunaga, Notes on the Wess-Zumino-Witten-like structure: $L_{\infty }$ triplet and NS-NS superstring field theory,
    JHEP (2017) [arXiv:1612.08827 [hep-th]]
  • K. Goto and H. Matsunaga, $A_\infty / L_\infty$ structure and alternative action for WZW-like superstring field theory,
    JHEP (2017) [arXiv:1512.03379 [hep-th]]
  • H. Matsunaga, Comments on complete actions for open superstring field theory,
    JHEP (2016) [arXiv:1510.06023 [hep-th]]
  • H. Matsunaga, Nonlinear gauge invariance and WZW-like action for NS-NS superstring field theory,
    JHEP (2015) [arXiv:1407.8485 [hep-th]]

For a complete list of publications see INSPIRE-HEP.