Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-06-18
JHEP 0211:016,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
JHEP3 LaTeX, 20 pages; discussion of WZW levels clarified, reference added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2002/11/016
We investigate the pp-wave limit of the AdS_3\times S^3\times K3 compactification of Type IIB string theory from the point of view of the dual Sym_N(K3) CFT. It is proposed that a fundamental string in this pp-wave geometry is dual to the c=6 effective string of the Sym_N(K3) CFT, with the string bits of the latter being composed of twist operators. The massive fundamental string oscillators correspond to certain twisted Virasoro generators in the effective string. It is shown that both the ground states and the genus expansion parameter (at least in the orbifold limit of the CFT) coincide. Surprisingly the latter scales like J^2/N rather than the J^4/N^2 which might have been expected. We demonstrate a leading-order agreement between the pp-wave and CFT particle spectra. For a degenerate special case (one NS 5-brane) an intriguing complete agreement is found.
Gomis Jaume
Motl Lubos
Strominger Andrew
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