Little strings, quasi-topological sigma model on loop group, and toroidal Lie algebras

We study the ground states and left-excited states of the Ak−1 N=(2,0) little string theory. Via a theorem by Atiyah [1], these sectors can be captured by a supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model on CP1 with target space the based loop group of SU(k). The ground states, described by L2-cohomology clas...

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Main Authors: Meer Ashwinkumar, Jingnan Cao, Yuan Luo, Meng-Chwan Tan, Qin Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-03-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321318300142