Interactions of strings on a T-fold

Abstract: We consider the interactions of strings on T-folds from the world-sheet point of view which are exact in $\alpha'$. As a concrete example, we take a model where the internal torus at the so(8) enhancement point is twisted by T-duality (T-folded), and compute the scattering amplitudes of a class of massless strings. The four-point amplitudes involving both twisted and untwisted strings are obtained in a closed form in terms of the hypergeometric function. By their factorization, the three-point coupling of the twisted and untwisted strings is found to be suppressed by the chiral momenta along the internal torus, and quantized in integer powers of 1/4. The asymptotic forms of the four-point amplitudes in high-energy limits are also obtained. Our results rely only on general properties of the asymmetric orbifold by the T-duality twist and of the Lie algebra lattice from the symmetry enhancement, and thus may be extended qualitatively to more general T-folds.