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String field theory, so far, has been relatively clean and simple. For example, the light cone string field theory for closed strings [1] was purely cubic, yet it successfully reproduced the highly nonlinear theory of Einstein. The covariant version of the open string field theory [2] was even simpler, being just a Chern-Simons term.
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Kaku, M. (1991). Nonpolynomial String Field Theory. In: Strings, Conformal Fields, and Topology. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0397-8_11
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