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NS5 Brane and Little String Duality in the pp-wave Limit

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We study NSR strings in the Nappi-Witten background, which is the Penrose limit of a certain NS5-brane supergravity solution. We solve the theory in the light-cone gauge, obtaining the spectrum, which is space-time supersymmetric. In light of the LST/NS5-brane duality, this spectrum should be in correspondence with the states of little string theory in the appropriate limit. A semiclassical analysis verifies that the relationship between energy and angular momentum, after a field redefinition, matches the known result for a flat background.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0305028,
  title  = {NS5 Brane and Little String Duality in the pp-wave Limit},
  author = {P. Matlock and R. Parthasarathy and K. S. Viswanathan and Y. Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0305028},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, revtex. v2: Typos mended; explanation clarified; reference added

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