Submitted: 3 Sept. 1986
Authors:
A. Abouelsaood, C.G. Callan, C.R. Nappi and S.A. Yost
Comments: 26 pgs
Journal-ref: Nucl. Phys. B280 [FS18] (1987) 599-624
Some properties of open bosonic strings in a background gauge field are investigated. We derive the equations of motion and effective action for the electromagnetic field, and discuss the effect of the field on the string spectrum and partition function.