F-theory and the classification of little strings

2015/11/30 by Lakshya Bhardwaj, Michele Del Zotto, Jonathan J. Heckman +3 · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Affine transformation #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Duality (order theory) #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Multiplet #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Pairing #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum mechanics #String (physics) #String theory #Tensor (intrinsic definition) #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.93.086002

published as Phys. Rev. D 93, 086002 (2016) · 75 pages, 7 figures, v2: typos corrected, v3: LSTs involving two -2 curves intersecting tangentially omitted since their construction had an inadvertent error

openalex publication_date 2016/04/07 · arxiv created 2019/05/30 · arxiv updated 2019/06/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Little string theories (LSTs ) are non-local six dimensional (6D) theories that arise as a particular limit in string theory where gravity decouples, and they provide the ultraviolet (UV) completion for 6D effective local quantum field theories. The authors classify all such LSTs and show that they can be obtained as mild extensions of 6D superconformal field theories.

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