Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-10-21
Nucl.Phys.B679:3-65,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
76 pages (56 pages + 4 appendices), 2 figures, harvmac. v2: references and a clarification added. v3: small corrections
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.11.041
Little String Theory (LST) is a still somewhat mysterious theory that describes the dynamics near a certain class of time-like singularities in string theory. In this paper we discuss the topological version of LST, which describes topological strings near these singularities. For 5+1 dimensional LSTs with sixteen supercharges, the topological version may be described holographically in terms of the N=4 topological string (or the N=2 string) on the transverse part of the near-horizon geometry of NS5-branes. We show that this topological string can be used to efficiently compute the half-BPS F^4 terms in the low-energy effective action of the LST. Using the strong-weak coupling string duality relating type IIA strings on K3 and heterotic strings on T^4, the same terms may also be computed in the heterotic string near a point of enhanced gauge symmetry. We study the F^4 terms in the heterotic string and in the LST, and show that they have the same structure, and that they agree in the cases for which we compute both of them. We also clarify some additional issues, such as the definition and role of normalizable modes in holographic linear dilaton backgrounds, the precise identifications of vertex operators in these backgrounds with states and operators in the supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory that arises in the low energy limit of LST, and the normalization of two-point functions.
Aharony Ofer
Fiol Bartomeu
Kutasov David
Sahakyan David A.
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