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Comments on Double Scaled Little String Theory
We study little string theory in a weak coupling limit defined in \gk.Comment: 22 pages, harvmac; minor change
More Comments on String Theory on AdS_3
We clarify a number of issues regarding the worldsheet and spacetime
descriptions of string propagation on AdS_3. We construct the vertex operators
of spacetime current algebra and spacetime (super) Virasoro generators in the
full interacting SL(2) WZW theory and study their Ward identities. We also
explain the relation between the analysis in this note and some recent work on
this subject.Comment: 42 pages, harvmac; references adde
Little String Theory in a Double Scaling Limit
A double scaling limit can be defined in string theory on a Calabi-Yau (CY)
manifold by approaching a point in moduli space where the CY space develops an
isolated singularity and at the same time taking the string coupling to zero,
while keeping a particular combination of the two parameters fixed. This leads
to a decoupled theory without gravity which has a weak coupling expansion, and
can be studied using a holographically dual non-critical superstring
description. The usual ``Little String Theory'' corresponds to the strong
coupling limit of this theory. We use holography to compute two and three point
functions in weakly coupled double scaled little string theory, and study the
spectrum of the theory in various dimensions. We find a discrete spectrum of
masses which exhibits Hagedorn growth.Comment: 23 pages, harvmac; minor change
Ground Rings and Their Modules in 2D Gravity with Matter
All solvable two-dimensional quantum gravity models have non-trivial BRST
cohomology with vanishing ghost number. These states form a ring and all the
other states in the theory fall into modules of this ring. The relations in the
ring and in the modules have a physical interpretation. The existence of these
rings and modules leads to nontrivial constraints on the correlation functions
and goes a long way toward solving these theories in the continuum approach.Comment: 13 page
Holography for Non-Critical Superstrings
We argue that a class of ``non-critical superstring'' vacua is
holographically related to the (non-gravitational) theory obtained by studying
string theory on a singular Calabi-Yau manifold in the decoupling limit . In two dimensions, adding fundamental strings at the singularity of the CY
manifold leads to conformal field theories dual to a recently constructed class
of vacua. In four dimensions, special cases of the construction
correspond to the theory on an NS5-brane wrapped around a Riemann surface.Comment: 29 pages, harvmac; minor changes, references adde
Scattering of Open and Closed Strings in 1+1 Dimensions
The ground ring structure of 1+1 dimensional string theory leads to an
infinite set of non linear recursion relations among the `bulk' scattering
amplitudes of open and closed tachyons on the disk, which fix them uniquely.
The relations are generated by the action of the ring on the tachyon modules;
associativity of this action determines all structure constants. This algebraic
structure may allow one to relate the continuum picture to a matrix model.Comment: 16 page
A CFT description of the BTZ black hole: topology versus geometry (or thermodynamics versus statistical mechanics
In this paper we review the properties of the black hole entropy in the light
of a general conformal field theory treatment. We find that the properties of
horizons of the BTZ black holes in ADS_{3}, can be described in terms of an
effective unitary CFT_{2} with central charge c=1 realized in terms of the
Fubini-Veneziano vertex operators.
It is found a relationship between the topological properties of the black
hole solution and the infinite algebra extension of the conformal group in 2D,
SU(2,2), i.e. the Virasoro Algebra, and its subgroup SL(2,Z) which generates
the modular symmetry. Such a symmetry induces a duality for the black hole
solution with angular momentum J\neq 0. On the light of such a global symmetry
we reanalyze the Cardy formula for CFT_{2} and its possible generalization to
D>2 proposed by E. Verlinde.Comment: 21 page
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