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Charting the landscape of supercritical string theory
Special solutions of string theory in supercritical dimensions can
interpolate in time between theories with different numbers of spacetime
dimensions (via dimension quenching) and different amounts of worldsheet
supersymmetry (via c-duality). These solutions connect supercritical string
theories to the more familiar string duality web in ten dimensions, and provide
a precise link between supersymmetric and purely bosonic string theories.
Dimension quenching and c-duality appear to be natural concepts in string
theory, giving rise to large networks of interconnected theories. We describe
some of these networks in detail and discuss general consistency constraints on
the types of transitions that arise in this framework.Comment: 27 pages, 4 figure
On the Large -charge Expansion in Superconformal Field Theories
In this note we study two point functions of Coulomb branch chiral ring
elements with large -charge, in quantum field theories with superconformal symmetry in four spacetime dimensions. Focusing on the case
of one-dimensional Coulomb branch, we use the effective-field-theoretic methods
of arXiv:1706.05743, to estimate the two-point function in the limit where the operator insertion On has large total
-charge . We show that
has a nontrivial but universal asymptotic expansion at large , of
the form where approaches a constant as
, and is an -independent constant
describing on the normalization of the operator relative to the effective
Abelian gauge coupling. The exponent is a positive number proportional
to the difference between the -anomaly coefficient of the underlying CFT and
that of the effective theory of the Coulomb branch. For Lagrangian SCFT, we
check our predictions against exact results from supersymmetric localization of
Baggio et. al. and Gerchkovitz et. al., and find precise agreement for the
logarithm , up to and including order
. We also give predictions for the growth of two-point
functions in all rank-one SCFT in the classification of Argyres et. al. In this
way, we show the large--charge expansion serves as a bridge from the world
of unbroken superconformal symmetry, OPE data, and bootstraps, to the world of
the low-energy dynamics of the moduli space of vacua.Comment: minor change
Boundary Operators in Effective String Theory
Various universal features of relativistic rotating strings depend on the
organization of allowed local operators on the worldsheet. In this paper, we
study the set of Neumann boundary operators in effective string theory, which
are relevant for the controlled study of open relativistic strings with freely
moving endpoints. Relativistic open strings are thought to encode the dynamics
of confined quark-antiquark pairs in gauge theories in the planar
approximation. Neumann boundary operators can be organized by their behavior
under scaling of the target space coordinates X, and the set of allowed
X-scaling exponents is bounded above by +1/2 and unbounded below. Negative
contributions to X-scalings come from powers of a single invariant, or
"dressing" operator, which is bilinear in the embedding coordinates. In
particular, we show that all Neumann boundary operators are dressed by
quarter-integer powers of this invariant, and we demonstrate how this rule
arises from various ways of regulating the short-distance singularities of the
effective theory.Comment: LaTeX, 37 page
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