Progress toward the Determination of Complete Vertex Operators for The IIB Matrix Model.pdf

KEK-TH-1121 hep-th/0612080 Progress toward the Determination of Complete Vertex Operators for The IIB Matrix Model 6 0 0 2 c e Yoshihisa Kitazawa1,2 , Shun’ya Mizoguchi1,2 and Osamu Saito1,3 D 9 1 1High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) v Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan 0 8 0 2 2 Department of Particle and Nuclear Physics 1 6 The Graduate University for Advanced Studies 0 / Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan h t - p e 3 Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo h : Kashiwa 277-8582, Japan v i X r a Abstract We report on progress in determining the complete form of vertex operators for the IIB ma- trix model. The exact expressions are obtained for those emitting massless IIB supergravity fields up to sixth order in the light-cone superfield, in which the conjugate gravitino and con- jugate two-form vertex operators are newly determined. We also provide a consistency check by computing the kinematical factor of a four-point graviton amplitude in a D-instanton background. We conjecture that the low-energy effective action of the IIB matrix model at large N is given by tree-level supergravity coupled to the vertex operators. December 2006 1 Introduction Realizing string theory as a matrix model is an efficient way for investigating its nature beyond perturbation. Among others, the IIB matrix model is in a sense the simplest proposal, a