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Lifting of two-mode states in the D1-D5 CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-10-24 v2

Abstract

We consider D1-D5-P states in the untwisted sector of the D1-D5 orbifold CFT where one copy of the seed CFT has been excited by a pair of oscillators, each being either bosonic or fermionic. While such states are BPS at the orbifold point, they will in general `lift' as the theory is deformed towards general values of the couplings. We compute the expectation value of this lift at second order in the deformation parameter for the above mentioned states. We write this lift in terms of a fixed number of nested contour integrals on a given integrand; this integrand depends on the mode numbers of the oscillators in the state. We evaluate these integrals to obtain the explicit value of the lift for various subfamilies of states. At large mode numbers one observes a smooth increase of the lift with the dimension of the state hh; this increase appears to follow a h\sim \sqrt{h} behavior similar to that found analytically in earlier computations for other classes of states.

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@article{arxiv.2309.03321,
  title  = {Lifting of two-mode states in the D1-D5 CFT},
  author = {Marcel R. R. Hughes and Samir D. Mathur and Madhur Mehta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03321},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

40 pages, 9 figures; v2 minor typos fixed