OM theory in diverse dimensions

By Rajesh Gopakumar, Shiraz Minwalla, N. Seiberg, Andrew Strominger. 2000

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Open string theories can be decoupled from closed strings and gravity by scaling to the critical electric field. We propose dual descriptions for the strong coupling limit of these NCOS (Non-Commutative Open String) theories in six or fewer spacetime dimensions. In particular, we conjecture that the 5-dimensional NCOS theory at strong coupling, is a theory of light Open Membranes (OM), decoupled from gravity, on an M5-brane with a near-critical three-form field strength. The relation of OM theory to NCOS theories resembles that of M-theory to type-II closed string theories. In two dimensions we conjecture that supersymmetric U(n) gauge theory with a unit of electric flux is dual to the NCOS theory with string coupling 1/n. A construction based on NS5-branes leads to new theories in six dimensions generalising the little string theory. A web of dualities relates all the above theories when they are compactified on tori.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Kaluza Klein Melvin solution in M-theory (2000, background): “Evidence for this relation was given by using perturbative string theory and the ‘9/11’ flip symmetry of M-theory.”
Wilsonian approach to fluid/gravity duality (2010, background): “Other interesting examples include the proposed holographic duals to superconductors [46], for which the metric cannot in general be found analytically, or other cases ([47,48] to mention a few) which are not asymptotically AdS and correspond to systems which are not conformally invariant in the UV.”
Dipoles, Twists and Noncommutative Gauge Theory (2000, background): “It has been argued in [33, 34, 35, 15, 36] that there exists a deformation of the (2, 0) theory that depends on an anti-self-dual 3-form Θ and, after compactification on a small S(1), the deformation reduces to 4+1D SYM with noncommutativity parameter Θ.”
Topological Open P-Branes (2000, unknown): “Dec. 15, 2000”
Noncommutative field theory (2001, methodology): “d, and by taking a near critical electric background for one of these ﬁelds, one can again reach a decoupling limit in which only the corresponding open brane degrees of freedom remain, discussed in (Gopakumar et al., 2000c; Harmark, 2001). All of these theories are connected by a web of dualities a”
Nonrelativistic closed string theory (2000, background): “11 For a lift to eleven dimensions of a similar limit see [8].”
(De)constructing dimensions. (2001, methodology): “In components, we have SU(2) gauge bosons, together with a Dirac fermion and a real scalar in the adjoint representation.”
Deconstructing (2,0) and Little String Theories (2001, background): “There are likely deconstructions of other non-gravitational theories in five and six dimensions, such as theories with less supersymmetry, [33] and NCOS [34, 35] theory, etc.”
IIA/B, wound and wrapped (2000, methodology): “Just like the various NCOS theories are different classes of states in a single Wound string theory, the recently discovered OM theory [6, 31] (see also [32]) and ODp theories [33, 6] are specific classes of states in a broader framework: as it will be shown in Section 5, OM theory is the Wrapped M2”
On theories with light-like noncommutativity (2000, background): “The relation between the six dimensional theory we described here and the “open membrane” theories discussed in [10,12,13] is not clear.”