Quantization of non-local field theory and string field theory

Abstract

The interaction vertex in covariant string field theory (SFT) is non-local in the time coordinate and the conventional canonical quantization is inapplicable to it. As an approach to quantizing this system we apply Hayashi's theory of the Hamilton formalism for field theories with non-local interactions. We find that the resulting one-loop amplitudes in covariant closed SFT coincide with those in the light-cone gauge SFT.