A tale of three --- tensionless strings and vacuum structure

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)061zbMATH Open1436.83078arXiv2001.00354MaRDI QIDQ780703FDOQ780703

Pulastya Parekh, Aritra Banerjee, Arjun Bagchi, Shankhadeep Chakrabortty, S. Dutta

Publication date: 15 July 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Within the premise of canonical quantisation, we re-examine the quantum structure of bosonic tensionless string theory. In the classical theory, the worldsheet metric degenerates and the Bondi-Metnzer-Sachs (BMS) algebra arises as the residual symmetries on fixing the tensionless equivalent of the conformal gauge. In the quantum regime, we find, on careful examination, that there are multiple ways to impose constraints to restrict the physical Hilbert space, which in turn lead to three distinct choices of tensionless vacua. We analyse these vacua in detail, commenting on various aspects like the central charges and the spectrum around each of them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00354

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsconformal and W symmetryhigher spin symmetryBondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

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