S-duality in $T\bar{T}$-deformed CFT
Abstract
deformed conformal field theories can be reformulated as worldsheet theories of non-critical strings. We use this correspondence to compute and study the deformed partition sum of a symmetric product CFT. We find that it takes the form of a partition sum of a second quantized string theory with a worldsheet given by the product of the seed CFT and a gaussian sigma model with the two-torus as target space. We show that deformed symmetric product theory admits a natural UV completion that exhibits a strong weak coupling duality that interchanges the momentum and winding numbers and maps the -coupling to its inverse . The duality is part of a full O-duality group that includes a PSL acting on the complexified coupling. The duality symmetry eliminates the appearance of complex energies at strong coupling for all seed CFTs with central charge .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2302.09677,
title = {S-duality in $T\bar{T}$-deformed CFT},
author = {Nathan Benjamin and Scott Collier and Jorrit Kruthoff and Herman Verlinde and Mengyang Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09677},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
37 pages, v3: JHEP published version, comments, references added, typos corrected