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Tensionless Tales of Compactification

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-07-06 v1

Abstract

We study circle compactifications of tensionless bosonic string theory, both at the classical and the quantum level. The physical state condition for different representations of BMS3_3, the worldsheet residual gauge symmetry for tensionless strings, admits three inequivalent quantum vacua. We obtain the compactified mass spectrum in each of these vacua using canonical quantization and explicate their properties.

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@article{arxiv.2307.01275,
  title  = {Tensionless Tales of Compactification},
  author = {Aritra Banerjee and Ritankar Chatterjee and Priyadarshini Pandit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.01275},
  year   = {2023}
}

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55 pages

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