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We reconsider the tensionless limit on bosonic closed string theory, where the 3d Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) algebra appears as symmetries on the worldsheet, as opposed to two copies of the Virasoro algebra in the case of the usual tensile…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Arjun Bagchi , Aritra Banerjee , Pulastya Parekh

String theory is accused by some of its critics to be a purely abstract mathematical discipline, having lost the contact to the simple yet deeply rooted questions which physics provided until the beginning of this century. We argue that, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl-Georg Schlesinger

We generalize the CHY formalism to one-loop level, based on the framework of the null string theory. The null string, a tensionless string theory, produces the same results as the ones from the chiral ambitwistor string theory, with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-12 Ming Yu , Chi Zhang , Yao-Zhong Zhang

We observed that the null strings, tensionless strings with Carrollian worldsheets, exhibit an extra gauge symmetry, \textit{Carroll-Weyl} gauge symmetry, which cannot be obtained from ultra-relativistic Carrollian limit of tensile strings.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , H. Yavartanoo

We revisit the construction of the tensionless limit of closed bosonic string theory in the covariant formulation in the light of Galilean conformal symmetry that rises as the residual gauge symmetry on the tensionless worldsheet. We relate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Arjun Bagchi , Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Pulastya Parekh

String geometry theory is one of the candidates of the non-perturbative formulation of string theory. In arXiv:1709.03506, the perturbative string theory is reproduced from a string geometry model coupled with a $u(1)$ gauge field on string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-16 Matsuo Sato , Yuji Sugimoto

String theory is a quantum theory that reproduces the results of General Relativity at long distances but is completely different at short distances. Mathematically, string theory is based on a very new -- and little understood -- framework…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Witten

Presently integrability turned out to be the key property in the study of duality between superconformal gauge theories and strings in anti-de Sitter superspaces. Complexity of the study of integrable structure in string theory is caused by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Dmytro V. Uvarov

Input from QCD and string theory is used in order to elucidate basic features of the string theory dual of QCD, It is argued that the relevant string theory is a five-dimensional version of the type-0 superstring. The vacuum solution is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-03 Elias Kiritsis

We study a string theory which is exclusively based on extrinsic curvature action. It is a tensionless string theory because the action reduces to perimeter for the flat Wilson loop. We are able to solve and quantize this high-derivative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Savvidy

Strominger and collaborators recently proposed that soft theorems for gauge and gravity amplitudes can be interpreted as Ward identities of a 2d CFT at null infinity. In this paper, we will consider a specific realization of this CFT known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-01 Arthur E. Lipstein

{}From the ordinary tensile string we derive a geometric action for the tensionless ($T=0$) string and discuss its symmetries and field equations. The Weyl symmetry of the usual string is shown to be replaced by a global space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Isberg , U. Lindström , B. Sundborg , G. Theodoridis

The cosmological constant problem is turned around to argue for a new foundational physics postulate underlying a consistent quantum theory of gravity and matter, such as string theory. This postulate is a quantum equivalence principle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Vishnu Jejjala , Djordje Minic

In the tensionless limit of string theory on flat background all the massive tower of states gets squeezed to a common zero mass level and the free theory is described by an infinite amount of massless free fields with arbitrary integer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Bonelli

Null cosmic strings are shown to disturb gravitational fields of massive bodies and create outgoing gravitational waves (GW). Perturbations of the metric caused by a straight null string and a point-like massive source are found as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 D. V. Fursaev , E. A. Davydov , I. G. Pirozhenko , V. A. Tainov

Null strings, strings with Carrollian worldsheets, are traditionally described by the Isberg-Lindstr\"om-Sundborg-Theodoridis (ILST) action, which is obtained via a tensionless limit of standard tensile strings. In a recent work, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , H. Yavartanoo

The tensionless limit of classical string theory may be formulated as a topological theory on the world-sheet. A vector density carries geometrical information in place of an internal metric. It is found that path-integral quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Bo Sundborg

We define string geometry: spaces of superstrings including the interactions, their topologies, charts, and metrics. Trajectories in asymptotic processes on a space of strings reproduce the right moduli space of the super Riemann surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Matsuo Sato

This thesis considers two different aspects of string theory, the tensionless limit of the string and supersymmetric sigma models. The tensionless limit is used to find a IIB supergravity background generated by a tensionless string.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-16 Jonas Persson

It is established that in the tensionless limit the chiral superstring integrand is reduced to the chiral integrand of the ambitwistor string.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-26 Nikhil Kalyanapuram