Tensionless strings, WZW models at critical level and massless higher spin fields

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.01.035zbMATH Open1246.81281arXivhep-th/0305098OpenAlexW2003903329MaRDI QIDQ447107FDOQ447107

Authors: Ulf Lindström, Maxim Zabzine 

Publication date: 9 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the notion of tensionless limit in quantum bosonic string theory, especially in flat Minkowski space, noncompact group manifolds (e.g., SL(2,R)) and coset manifolds (e.g., AdS). We show that in curved space typically there exists a critical value of the tension which is related to the critical value of the level of the corresponding affine algebra. We argue that at the critical level the sring theory becomes tensionless and that there exists a huge new symmetry of the theory. We dicuss the appearence of the higher spin massless states at the critical level.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305098

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zbMATH Keywords

tensionless limitquantum bosonic string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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