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We review recent developments on nonrelativistic string theory. In flat spacetime, the theory is defined by a two-dimensional relativistic quantum field theory with nonrelativistic global symmetries acting on the worldsheet fields. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-10 Gerben Oling , Ziqi Yan

We explore \emph{folded} spinning string configurations over torsional Newton Cartan (TNC) geometry with $ R\times S^2 $ topology within the semiclassical approximation. We consider the large $ c $ and/or nonrelativistic (NR) limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-03 Dibakar Roychowdhury

Nonrelativistic string theory is a self-contained corner of string theory, with its string spectrum enjoying a Galilean-invariant dispersion relation. This theory is unitary and ultraviolet complete, and can be studied from first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Ziqi Yan

We present a minimal and dynamically consistent formulation of non-relativistic bosonic string theory in a Newton-Cartan (NC) background. Starting from a reparametrization-invariant Nambu-Goto action, we develop the Hamiltonian framework…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-05 Partha Nandi , Sk. Moinuddin , Abdus Sattar

Nonrelativistic string theory in flat spacetime is described by a two-dimensional quantum field theory with a nonrelativistic global symmetry acting on the worldsheet fields. Nonrelativistic string theory is unitary, ultraviolet complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Eric Bergshoeff , Jaume Gomis , Ziqi Yan

Nonrelativistic string theory is described by a sigma model with a relativistic worldsheet and a nonrelativistic target spacetime geometry, that is called string Newton-Cartan geometry. In this paper we obtain string Newton-Cartan geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-09 Eric Bergshoeff , Jaume Gomis , Jan Rosseel , Ceyda Simsek , Ziqi Yan

We find a Polyakov-type action for strings moving in a torsional Newton-Cartan geometry. This is obtained by starting with the relativistic Polyakov action and fixing the momentum of the string along a non-compact null isometry. For a flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-04 Troels Harmark , Jelle Hartong , Lorenzo Menculini , Niels A. Obers , Ziqi Yan

String Newton-Cartan holography is a new example of gauge/gravity duality relating non-relativistic string theory and gauge theories. We review how to construct a family of string and $p$-brane Newton-Cartan holographic dualities by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Andrea Fontanella , Juan Miguel Nieto García

We revisit the formulation of non-relativistic (NR) string theory and its target space geometry. We obtain a new formulation in which the geometry contains a two-form field that couples to the tension current and that transforms under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Leo Bidussi , Troels Harmark , Jelle Hartong , Niels A. Obers , Gerben Oling

Over the past quarter century, considerable effort has been invested in the study of nonrelativistic (NR) string theory, its U-dual NR brane theories, and their geometric foundations in (generalized) Newton-Cartan geometry. Many interesting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Alberto Guijosa

Using target space null reduction of the Polyakov action we find a novel covariant action for strings moving in a torsional Newton-Cartan geometry. Sending the string tension to zero while rescaling the Newton-Cartan clock 1-form, so as to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Troels Harmark , Jelle Hartong , Niels A. Obers

We construct one dimensional exactly solvable model by choosing a probe fundamental string rotating and pulsating in the planar Lifshitz spacetime that follows nonrelativistic Lifshitz scaling. We present suitable sets of embedding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Adrita Chakraborty

We discuss classical closed string solutions in non-relativistic two-sphere target spaces. These classes of solutions closely relate to the GKP-type, spinning and pulsating strings for the relativistic case. We derive the string dynamics in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Aritra Banerjee , Adrita Chakraborty , Nibedita Padhi

We show that the (torsional) nonrelativistic string sigma models on $ R\times S^2 $ can be mapped into \emph{deformed} Rosochatius like integrable models in one dimension. We also explore the associated Hamiltonian constrained structure by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 Dibakar Roychowdhury

Non-relativistic string theories promise to provide simpler theories of quantum gravity as well as tractable limits of the AdS/CFT correspondence. However, several apparently distinct non-relativistic string theories have been constructed.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-19 Troels Harmark , Jelle Hartong , Lorenzo Menculini , Niels A. Obers , Gerben Oling

Nonrelativistic string theory is a unitary, ultraviolet finite quantum gravity theory with a nonrelativistic string spectrum. The vertex operators of the worldsheet theory determine the spacetime geometry of nonrelativistic string theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Jaume Gomis , Jihwan Oh , Ziqi Yan

The nonrelativistic bosonic string theory in a curved manifold is formulated here using gauging of symmetry approach ( Galilean Gauge theory ) . The corresponding model in flat space has some global symmetries . By localizing these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-27 Sk. Moinuddin , Pradip Mukherjee

The quest for extension of holographic correspondence to non-relativistic sectors naturally includes Schr\"odinger backgrounds and their field theory duals. In this paper we study the holography by probing the correspondence with pulsating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 A. Golubtsova , H. Dimov , I. Iliev , M. Radomirov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

We construct a new model of four-dimensional relativistic strings with integrable dynamics on the worldsheet. In addition to translational modes this model contains a single massless pseudoscalar worldsheet field - the worldsheet axion. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Sergei Dubovsky , Victor Gorbenko

We obtain a non-relativistic diffeomorphism invariant string action as a special limit of the Nambu-Goto action in an FLRW background. We use this action to study non-relativistic string dynamics in an expanding universe and construct an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-19 A. Avgoustidis , Joaquim Gomis
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