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Tensionless strings and the space-time signature change

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We construct a tensionless string model in a four-dimensional space-time R2,2{\bf R}^{2,2} with the (2,2) signature and solve the string equations. We find that the signature change radically changes the structure of the holonomy group of the null worldsheet. As a result the introduction of the worldsheet Dirac operator invariant under the holonomy group becomes possible. We show that the such possibility is absent in the tensionless string model in the (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9908053,
  title  = {Tensionless strings and the space-time signature change},
  author = {S. A. Pol'shin and A. A. Zheltukhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9908053},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, LATEX, no figures

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