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-<html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><link href="/styles/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><title>The Interactive String</title></head><body><div class="container"><header><h1>The Interactive String</h1><p>Friedrich Schöller</p></header><div data-string="main" class="string"><div data-string-display="data-string-display" class="display"><noscript><p>Javascript is required.</p></noscript></div><div data-string-controls="data-string-controls" class="controls"><!--%button.string-type open / closed--><textarea data-string-modes="data-string-modes"></textarea></div></div><div class="description"><h2 class="numbered">Calculations</h2><p>The length of the string is set equal to one. Impulses are chosen so that the string is at rest. In the classical description the string is massive, except when all modes have zero amplitude which makes it massless (and boring).</p><!--%h3.numbered Open String--><!--\[X^i = 2 sqrt{2alpha'} sum_{n=1}^infty rac{1}{n} left( a_n^i sin(pi cn	au) - b_n^i cos(pi cn	au) ight) cos(pi nsigma) ]--><!--%h3.numbered Closed String--><h2>References</h2><ol><li>Polchinski, Joseph (1998). <i>String Theory</i>, Cambridge University Press</li></ol></div></div><script src="/js/index.js"></script></body></html>
+<html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><link href="/styles/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><title>The Interactive String</title></head><body><div class="container"><header><h1>The Interactive String</h1><p>Friedrich Schöller</p></header><div data-string="main" class="string"><div data-string-display="data-string-display" class="display"><noscript><p>Javascript is required.</p></noscript></div><div data-string-controls="data-string-controls" class="controls"><!--%button.string-type open / closed--><textarea data-string-modes="data-string-modes"></textarea></div></div><div class="description"><h2 class="numbered">Calculations</h2><p>The length of the string is set equal to one. Center of mass variables are chosen to make the string oscillate around the point of origin. This leaves us with the transverse oscillators as degrees of freedom. In the classical description the string is massive, except when all modes have zero amplitude which makes it massless (and boring).</p><!--%h3.numbered Open String--><!--\[X^i = 2 sqrt{2alpha'} sum_{n=1}^infty rac{1}{n} left( a_n^i sin(pi cn	au) - b_n^i cos(pi cn	au) ight) cos(pi nsigma) ]--><!--%h3.numbered Closed String--><h2>References</h2><ol><li>Polchinski, Joseph (1998). <i>String Theory</i>, Cambridge University Press</li></ol></div></div><script src="/js/index.js"></script></body></html>

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-          The length of the string is set equal to one. Impulses are chosen so that the string is at rest. In the classical description the string is massive, except when all modes have zero amplitude which makes it massless (and boring).
+          The length of the string is set equal to one. Center of mass variables are chosen to make the string oscillate around the point of origin. This leaves us with the transverse oscillators as degrees of freedom. In the classical description the string is massive, except when all modes have zero amplitude which makes it massless (and boring).
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         / \\[X^i = 2 \sqrt{2\alpha'} \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n} \left( a_n^i \sin(\pi cn\tau) - b_n^i \cos(\pi cn\tau) \right) \cos(\pi n\sigma) \]
         / %h3.numbered Closed String