%0 Journal Article
%T Strings in Background Electric Field, Space/Time Noncommutativity and A New Noncritical String Theory
%A N. Seiberg
%A L. Susskind
%A N. Toumbas
%J Physics
%D 2000
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/021
%X Searching for space/time noncommutativity we reconsider open strings in a constant background electric field. The main difference between this situation and its magnetic counterpart is that here there is a critical electric field beyond which the theory does not make sense. We show that this critical field prevents us from finding a limit in which the theory becomes a field theory on a noncommutative spacetime. However, an appropriate limit toward the critical field leads to a novel noncritical string theory on a noncommutative spacetime.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0005040v1