Tensionless strings in a Kalb-Ramond background
Aritra Banerjee, Ritankar Chatterjee, Priyadarshini Pandit
Abstract
A bstract We investigate tensionless (or null) bosonic string theory with a Kalb-Ramond background turned on. In analogy with the tensile case, we find that the Kalb-Ramond field has a non-trivial effect on the spectrum only when the theory is compactified on an ( S 1 ) ⊗ d background with d ≥ 2. We discuss the effect of this background field on the tensionless spectrum constructed on three known consistent null string vacua. We elucidate further on the intriguing fate of duality symmetries in these classes of string theories when the background field is turned on.
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