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Noncritical Superstrings in a Ramond-Ramond Background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We use the recently found matrix description of noncritical superstring theory of Type 0A to compute tachyon scattering amplitudes in a background with a RR flux. We find that after the string coupling is multiplicatively renormalized, the amplitudes in any genus become polynomial in the RR flux. We propose that in the limit where both the string coupling and the RR flux go to infinity, the theory has a weakly-coupled description in terms of another superstring theory with a vanishingly small RR flux. This duality exchanges the inverse string coupling and the 0-brane charge. The dual superstring theory must have a peculiar property that its only field-theoretic degree of freedom is a massless RR scalar.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0308119,
  title  = {Noncritical Superstrings in a Ramond-Ramond Background},
  author = {Anton Kapustin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0308119},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, latex

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