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We discuss the construction of boundary contributions to free string field theory actions in the context of the bosonic string. We show that it is generally possible to obtain a well-defined variational principle by adding a simple boundary term (which only depends on the value of the bulk fields at the boundary) to the original bulk action. However, it is in general not possible to do this in a gauge-invariant way unless suitable boundary degrees of freedom are added. We explicitly construct such boundary contributions for the massless level of both the open and the closed SFT, as well as for the tensionless limit of the full string field theory. Our results reproduce linearized general relativity with the Gibbons-Hawking-York term and provide similar gauge-invariant actions for the infinite tower of massless higher-spin gauge theories for all Regge trajectories. By writing down a gauge-invariant action for the first massive level of the open string, we provide evidence that an analogous construction should be possible for the full tensile string field theory.
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