String theory at the tip of the cigar

Amit Giveon, Nissan Itzhaki

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Abstract

In arXiv:1208.3930 we argued that string theory at the tip of the cigar geometry, obtained by a Wick rotation of the Schwarzschild background, exhibits unexpected features that include degrees of freedom that are confined to the tip. Using the exact worldsheet description of near extremal NS5-branes we further study string theory at the tip of the cigar and find more evidence to its surprising properties.

Original languageEnglish
Article number79
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2013
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • Black Holes in String Theory
  • Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories
  • Conformal Field Models in String Theory

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