The problems with background independence are discussed in the example of open string theory. Based on the recent proposal by Witten I calculate the String Field Theory action in conformal perturbation theory to second order and demonstrate that the proper treatment of contact terms leads to nontrivial equations of motion. I conjecture the form of the field theory action to all orders.
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Shatashvili, S. L. (2008). On background independence in string theory. In Integrable Models and Strings (pp. 221–234). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58453-6_12
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