Abstract
‘In’ and ‘out’ scalar vertex operators are constructed perturbatively in a class of recently discovered UV finite nonlinear σ-models describing the string evolution in gravitational plane wave backgrounds. They exhibit peculiar singularities in the target space related to the focusing phenomena in such backgrounds well known from the classical and quantum gravity theories. The computation is performed up to three loops of the usual perturbation expansion and to all loops of the weak field limit. An argument is given that the vertex operator singularities should persist, even when summing up the all perturbation expansions.
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