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Strings on pp-waves and massive two dimensional field theories

Author(s) -

Juan Maldacena,

Liat Maoz

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

journal of high energy physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 261

eISSN - 1126-6708

pISSN - 1029-8479

DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/046

Subject(s) - worldsheet , physics , supergravity , string theory , field theory (psychology) , string (physics) , theoretical physics , mathematical physics , interpretation (philosophy) , gauge symmetry , field (mathematics) , supersymmetry , space (punctuation) , symmetry (geometry) , gauge theory , string field theory , geometry , pure mathematics , mathematics , philosophy , linguistics

We find a general class of pp-wave solutions of type IIB string theory suchthat the light cone gauge worldsheet lagrangian is that of an interactingmassive field theory. When the light cone Lagrangian has (2,2) supersymmetry wecan find backgrounds that lead to arbitrary superpotentials on the worldsheet.We consider situations with both flat and curved transverse spaces. We describein some detail the background giving rise to the N=2 sine Gordon theory on theworldsheet. Massive mirror symmetry relates it to the deformed $CP^1$ model (orsausage model) which seems to elude a purely supergravity target spaceinterpretation.Comment: harvmac, 26 pages, v2,3: references added, typos correcte

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