Relating non-relativistic string theories

Troels Harmark; Jelle Hartong; Lorenzo Menculini; Niels A. Obers; Gerben Oling

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2019)071

Relating non-relativistic string theories

Troels Harmark^*, Jelle Hartong, Lorenzo Menculini, Niels A. Obers, Gerben Oling

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Theoretical high energy, astroparticle and gravitational physics

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Non-relativistic string theories promise to provide simpler theories of quantum gravity as well as tractable limits of the AdS/CFT correspondence. However, several apparently distinct non-relativistic string theories have been constructed. In particular, one approach is to reduce a relativistic string along a null isometry in target space. Another method is to perform an appropriate large speed of light expansion of a relativistic string. Both of the resulting non-relativistic string theories only have a well-defined spectrum if they have nonzero winding along a longitudinal spatial direction. In the presence of a Kalb-Ramond field, we show that these theories are equivalent provided the latter direction is an isometry. Finally, we consider a further limit of non-relativistic string theory that has proven useful in the context of AdS/CFT (related to Spin Matrix Theory). In that case, the worldsheet theory itself becomes non-relativistic and the dilaton coupling vanishes.

Original language	English
Article number	071
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2019
Issue number	11
Number of pages	32
ISSN	1029-8479
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2019)071
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2019

Keywords

AdS-CFT Correspondence
Conformal Field Models in String Theory
Gauge-gravity correspondence
String Duality

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