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Flux-vacua in Two Dimensional String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We analyze the two dimensional type 0 theory with background RR-fluxes. Both the 0A and the 0B theory have two distinct fluxes qq and q~\tilde q. We study these two theories at finite temperature (compactified on a Euclidean circle of radius RR) as a function of the fluxes, the tachyon condensate μ\mu and the radius RR. Surprisingly, the dependence on qq, q~\tilde q and μ\mu is rather simple. The partition function is the absolute value square of a holomorphic function of y=q+q~+i2αμy=|q|+|\tilde q| + i \sqrt{2\alpha'} \mu (up to a simple but interesting correction). As expected, the 0A and the 0B answers are related by T-duality. Our answers are derived using the exact matrix models description of these systems and are interpreted in the low energy spacetime Lagrangian.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0506141,
  title  = {Flux-vacua in Two Dimensional String Theory},
  author = {Juan Maldacena and Nathan Seiberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0506141},
  year   = {2009}
}

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41 pages, 4 figures, harvmac.tex