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Idea
A limit of the worldvolume theory of the NS5-brane, which is a string theory of “little strings” in six dimensions.
Table of branes appearing in supergravity/string theory (for classification see at brane scan).
References
General
The original reference is
- Nathan Seiberg, New theories in six dimensions and matrix description of M-theory on and Phys. Lett. B408 (1997) 98–104 (arXiv:hep-th/9705221)
Review is in
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Ofer Aharony, A brief review of “little string theories” , Class. Quant. Grav. 17 (2000) 929–938,
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David Kutasov, Introduction to Little String Theory, Lectures 2001 (pdf)
Little string theories on heterotic string theory NS5-branes with supersymmetry:
- E. Gava, K.S. Narain, M.H. Sarmadi, Little String Theories in Heterotic Backgrounds, Nucl.Phys. B626 (2002) 3-25 (arXiv:hep-th/0112200)
and via F-theory methods:
- Michele Del Zotto, Muyang Liu, Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann, 6D Heterotic Little String Theories and F-theory Geometry: An Introduction [arXiv:2303.13502]
The T-duality between type IIA and type IIB little strings is discussed in
- Jungmin Kim, Seok Kim, Kimyeong Lee, Little strings and T-duality, JHEP 2016:170 (arXiv:1503.07277)
Construction within F-theory is discussed in
- Lakshya Bhardwaj, Michele Del Zotto, Jonathan Heckman, David Morrison, Tom Rudelius, Cumrun Vafa, F-theory and the Classification of Little Strings (arXiv:1511.05565)
See also
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Mina Aganagic, Some mathematical applications of little string theory, talk at Strings 2016 (pdf)
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Joonho Kim, Kimyeong Lee, Little strings on orbifolds (arXiv:1702.03116)
On D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theories with compact hyperkähler manifold Coulomb branches obtained by KK-compactification of little string theories:
- Kenneth Intriligator, Compactified Little String Theories and Compact Moduli Spaces of Vacua, Phys. Rev. D61:106005, 2000 (arXiv:hep-th/9909219)
Relation of little string theory to the quantum geometric Langlands correspondence is discussed in
- Mina Aganagic, Edward Frenkel, Andrei Okounkov, Quantum -Langlands Correspondence (arXiv:1701.03146)
also
- Babak Haghighat, Rui Sun, M5 branes and Theta Functions (arXiv:1811.04938)
Discussion with emphasis on terminology from higher gauge theory:
- Michele Del Zotto, Kantaro Ohmori, 2-Group Symmetries of 6D Little String Theories and T-Duality, Ann. Henri Poincaré 22, 2451–2474 (2021) (arXiv:2009.03489,
Open D-brane theories
For light D-branes ending on NS5-branes (see there)
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Rajesh Gopakumar, Shiraz Minwalla, Nathan Seiberg, Andrew Strominger, OM Theory in Diverse Dimensions, JHEP 0008:008, 2000 (arXiv:hep-th/0006062)
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Troels Harmark, Open Branes in Space-Time Non-Commutative Little String Theory, Nucl.Phys. B593 (2001) 76-98 (arXiv:hep-th/0007147)
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Jian Xin Lu, -Dimensional Open Brane Theories, JHEP 0108:049 (2001) [arXiv:hep-th/0102056, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/049]
See also
- Dan Israel, Ari Pakman, Jan Troost, D-branes in Little String Theory, Nucl.Phys. B722 (2005) 3-64 (arXiv:hep-th/0502073)
Via the plane wave matrix model
On a double-scaling limit of the BMN matrix model in which aspects of little string theory become visible:
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Hai Lin, Juan Maldacena, Fivebranes from gauge theory, Phys. Rev. D 74 084014 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0509235, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.084014]
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Henry Ling, Ali Reza Mohazab, Hsien-Hang Shieh, Greg van Anders, Mark Van Raamsdonk, Little String Theory from a Double-Scaled Matrix Model, JHEP 0610:018 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0606014, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/018]
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Yuhma Asano, Goro Ishiki, Takaki Matsumoto, Shinji Shimasaki, Hiromasa Watanabe, On the existence of the NS5-brane limit of the plane wave matrix model, PTEP 2023 (2023) 4, 043B01 [arXiv:2211.13716, doi:10.1093/ptep/ptad042]
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