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Does String Theory predict things like Unruh effect and Hawking radiation?

Many effective field theories we know about arise as low energy limits in string theory. These include Yang-Mills in the case of open strings and Einstein gravity in the case of closed strings. Since ...
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In what sense is string theory not expected to be a QFT?

String theory is not an (algebraic) QFT because it doesn't take place on a fixed spacetime. The Haag-Kastler axioms are of the form "given a spacetime manifold $X$, then...", but string ...
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Compactification in String Theory and Compactification in Topology are they the same thing?

I don't know much about compactification in string theory, but the idea is based on the compactification in (4+1) D Kaluza-Klein theory, proposed in the years after the theory of general realtivity ...
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Compactification in String Theory and Compactification in Topology are they the same thing?

No, different concepts. The compactification in string theory is the process of taking a theory with extra infinitely extended dimensions (w.r.t. the canonical 3+1 dimensions) and modifying it so that ...
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Does QFT Imply Strings the Same Way that String Theory Implies Branes?

When we take a good hard look at QFT, we don't see any particles (dimensionless points traveling on world lines). All we see are localized interactions. When we do our experiments to confirm these ...
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Kaluza-Klein reducing the Chern-Simons term in 11D supergravity

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If mass in string theory is generated by string vibration, where does that leave the Higgs mechanism?

The massive states due to vibrations on the string have masses given as integer multiples of the string scale, which you should think of as a very large scale, near the Planck scale. (At least, nearer ...
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Vector $V^\mu$ vs the Lorentz contravariant components $V^a(x)$

The $e^{a}_{\mu}$ objects are called vierbein field (or tetrads, or frame fields) and connect a general frame of coordinates (in which vectors are expressed as $V^{\mu}$) to a local frame of reference....
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Compactification in String Theory and Compactification in Topology are they the same thing?

No, it is not. We compactify $\mathbb{R}$ to become a $\mathbb{S}^1$ by gluing $x\sim x+2\pi$, which is an universal covering $j:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{S}^1$.
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Could the Universe have monster symmetry?

A cheap point is that there is no symmetry we can ever rule out. Just let all of the fields we've observed be singlets under that symmetry and posit that new fields transforming faithfully under it ...
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Hamiltonian Open String

The orthogonality relations for sine and cosine functions should be proportional to the Kronecker $\delta$ symbol. Namely $$\int d\sigma \cos(m\sigma)\cos(n\sigma)\sim \delta_{mn}$$ \int d\sigma \...
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Kalb-Ramond current fall-offs at future null infinity

It is just a dummy variable change, from $p$ to $n:=m+p$. Since $m$ and $p$ run through all integers, $n$ also runs through all integers. $\newcommand{\ex}[1]{\mathrm{e}^{#1}}$ Stripping off the ...