Non-relativistic strings from WZW theories
- Girish Vishwa
Event description
String theory, in its most elementary formulation, is a set of maps from a worldsheet to some target space. In the quest for a theory of quantum gravity, our models almost always have Lorentzian target spaces (or backgrounds). However, what happens if we consider non-Lorentzian target spaces? In particular, what about Galilean target spaces? This leads to the notion of non-relativistic strings, which have become much more popular in the last 10 years for various reasons. However, there are exceedingly few explicit examples of non-relativistic strings that one can build as the quantisation of a field theory on a worldsheet. To remedy this, I present my work with my supervisor, which involves building a class of non-relativistic string theories by appropriately gauging certain types of WZW models.
Non-relativistic strings from WZW theories
Venue
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK
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- Subrabalan Murugesan(
- Heriot-Watt University
- Sam Teale
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