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1+1 Dimensional Critical String Theory and Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In hep-th/0310120, Goheer, Kleban and Susskind argued that the holographic principle is inconsistent with the existence of stable, Lorentz invariant, 1+1 dimensional compactifications. We note some difficulties with their analysis and present two novel backgrounds of string theory with 1+1 noncompact dimensions that satisfy their conditions yet possess 16 or 24 supersymmetries. It is difficult to believe that such backgrounds could be unstable.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0312115,
  title  = {1+1 Dimensional Critical String Theory and Holography},
  author = {Aaron Bergman and Jacques Distler and Uday Varadarajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0312115},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, no figures. LaTeX2e (using utarticle.cls and utphys.bst)

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