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D-string on near horizon geometries and infinite conformal symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We show that the symmetries of effective D-string actions in constant dilaton backgrounds are directly related to homothetic motions of the background metric. In presence of such motions, there are infinitely many nonlinearly realized rigid symmetries forming a loop (or loop like) algebra. Near horizon (AdS) D3 and D1+D5 backgrounds are discussed in detail and shown to provide 2d interacting field theories with infinite conformal symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803196,
  title  = {D-string on near horizon geometries and infinite conformal symmetry},
  author = {Friedemann Brandt and Joaquim Gomis and Joan Simón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803196},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, revtex, no figures; symmetry transformations for BI action added, coupling of D-string to RR 2-form in D1-D5 background corrected; final version, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett