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String Theory on AdS Orbifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-19 v2

Abstract

We consider worldsheet string theory on ZNZ_N orbifolds of AdS3AdS_3 associated with conical singularities. If the orbifold action includes a similar twist of S3S^3, supersymmetry is preserved, and there is a moduli space of vacua arising from blowup modes of the orbifold singularity. We exhibit the spectrum, including the properties of twisted sectors and states obtained by fractional spectral flow. A subalgebra of the spacetime superconformal symmetry remains intact after the ZNZ_N quotient, and serves as the spacetime symmetry algebra of the orbifold.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0106171,
  title  = {String Theory on AdS Orbifolds},
  author = {Emil Martinec and Will McElgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0106171},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

37 pages, 3 eps figures. v2: Substantial revision to section 7, on spacetime CFT interpretation