Nonrelativistic closed string theory.

DOI10.1063/1.1372697zbMATH Open1036.81030arXivhep-th/0009181OpenAlexW2095279951WikidataQ59197111 ScholiaQ59197111MaRDI QIDQ2774954

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Publication date: 26 February 2002

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Abstract: We construct a Galilean invariant non-gravitational closed string theory whose excitations satisfy a non-relativistic dispersion relation. This theory can be obtained by taking a consistent low energy limit of any of the conventional string theories, including the heterotic string. We give a finite first order worldsheet Hamiltonian for this theory and show that this string theory has a sensible perturbative expansion, interesting high energy behavior of scattering amplitudes and a Hagedorn transition of the thermal ensemble. The strong coupling duals of the Galilean superstring theories are considered and are shown to be described by an eleven-dimensional Galilean invariant theory of light membrane fluctuations. A new class of Galilean invariant non-gravitational theories of light-brane excitations are obtained. We exhibit dual formulations of the strong coupling limits of these Galilean invariant theories and show that they exhibit many of the conventional dualities of M theory in a non-relativistic setting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0009181

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