scholarly journals Generalized two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory is a matrix string theory

2000 ◽  
Vol 88 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 142-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Billò ◽  
M. Caselle ◽  
A. D'Adda ◽  
P. Provero
1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (23) ◽  
pp. 2223-2235 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN G. NACULICH ◽  
HAROLD A. RIGGS ◽  
HOWARD J. SCHNITZER

We show that two-dimensional SO (N) and Sp (N) Yang-Mills theories without fermions can be interpreted as closed string theories. The terms in the 1/N expansion of the partition function on an orientable or nonorientable manifold ℳ can be associated with maps from a string worldsheet onto ℳ. These maps are unbranched and branched covers of ℳ with an arbitrary number of infinitesimal worldsheet cross-caps mapped to points in ℳ. These string theories differ from SU (N) Yang-Mills string theory in that they involve odd powers of 1/N and require both orientable and nonorientable worldsheets.


2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 205-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
FLORIAN DUBATH ◽  
SIMONE LELLI ◽  
ANNA RISSONE

Two-dimensional SU (N) Yang–Mills theory is known to be equivalent to a string theory, as found by Gross in the large N limit, using the 1/N expansion. Later it was found that even a generalized YM theory leads to a string theory of the Gross type. In the standard YM theory case, Douglas and others found the string Hamiltonian describing the propagation and the interactions of states made of strings winding on a cylindrical space–time. We address the problem of finding a similar Hamiltonian for the generalized YM theory. As in the standard case we start by writing the theory as a theory of free fermions. Performing a bosonization, we express the Hamiltonian in terms of the modes of a bosonic field, that are interpreted as in the standard case as creation and destruction operators for states of strings winding around the cylindrical space–time. The result is similar to the standard Hamiltonian, but with new kinds of interaction vertices.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (14n15) ◽  
pp. 2279-2280
Author(s):  
HIKARU KAWAI ◽  
MATSUO SATO

It has not been clarified whether a matrix model can describe various vacua of string theory. In this talk, we show that the IIB matrix model includes type IIA string theory1. In the naive large N limit of the IIB matrix model, configurations consisting of simultaneously diagonalizable matrices form a moduli space, although the unique vacuum would be determined by complicated dynamics. This moduli space should correspond to a part of perturbatively stable vacua of string theory. Actually, one point on the moduli space represents type IIA string theory. Instead of integrating over the moduli space in the path-integral, we can consider each of the simultaneously diagonalizable configurations as a background and set the fluctuations of the diagonal elements to zero. Such procedure is known as quenching in the context of the large N reduced models. By quenching the diagonal elements of the matrices to an appropriate configuration, we show that the quenched IIB matrix model is equivalent to the two-dimensional large N [Formula: see text] super Yang-Mills theory on a cylinder. This theory is nothing but matrix string theory and is known to be equivalent to type IIA string theory. As a result, we find the manner to take the large N limit in the IIB matrix model.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (25) ◽  
pp. 3979-4002 ◽  
Author(s):  
FUMIHIKO SUGINO

In this paper we consider IIA and IIB matrix string theories which are defined by two-dimensional and three-dimensional super Yang–Mills theory with the maximal supersymmetry, respectively. We exactly compute the partition function of both of the theories by mapping to a cohomological field theory. Our result for the IIA matrix string theory coincides with the result obtained in the infrared limit by Kostov and Vanhove, and thus gives a proof of the exact quasiclassics conjectured by them. Further, our result for the IIB matrix string theory coincides with the exact result of IKKT model by Moore, Nekrasov and Shatashvili. It may be an evidence of the equivalence between the two distinct IIB matrix models arising from different roots.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadashi Okazaki ◽  
Douglas J. Smith

Abstract We derive general BPS boundary conditions in two-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = (2, 2) supersymmetric gauge theories. We analyze the solutions of these boundary conditions, and in particular those that allow the bulk fields to have poles at the boundary. We also present the brane configurations for the half- and quarter-BPS boundary conditions of the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = (2, 2) supersymmetric gauge theories in terms of branes in Type IIA string theory. We find that both A-type and B-type brane configurations are lifted to M-theory as a system of M2-branes ending on an M5-brane wrapped on a product of a holomorphic curve in ℂ2 with a special Lagrangian 3-cycle in ℂ3.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashoke Sen

Abstract In a recent paper, Balthazar, Rodriguez and Yin found remarkable agreement between the one instanton contribution to the scattering amplitudes of two dimensional string theory and those in the matrix model to the first subleading order. The comparison was carried out numerically by analytically continuing the external energies to imaginary values, since for real energies the string theory result diverges. We use insights from string field theory to give finite expressions for the string theory amplitudes for real energies. We also show analytically that the imaginary parts of the string theory amplitudes computed this way reproduce the full matrix model results for general scattering amplitudes involving multiple closed strings.


2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Giangreco Marotta Puletti

One of the main topics in the modern String Theory are the AdS/CFT dualities. Proving such conjectures is extremely difficult since the gauge and string theory perturbative regimes do not overlap. In this perspective, the discovery of infinitely many conserved charges, that is, the integrability, in the planar AdS/CFT has allowed us to reach immense progresses in understanding and confirming the duality. We review the fundamental concepts and properties of integrability in two-dimensionalσ-models and in the AdS/CFT context. The first part is focused on theAdS5/CFT4duality, especially the classical and quantum integrability of the type IIB superstring onAdS5×S5which is discussed in both pure spinor and Green-Schwarz formulations. The second part is dedicated to theAdS4/CFT3duality with particular attention to the type IIA superstring onAdS4×ℂP3and its integrability. This review is based on the author's PhD thesis discussed at Uppsala University the 21st September 2009.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (13) ◽  
pp. 915-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN SWANSON

Marginal β deformations of [Formula: see text] super-Yang–Mills theory are known to correspond to a certain class of deformations of the S5 background subspace of type IIB string theory in AdS5×S5. An analogous set of deformations of the AdS5 subspace is reviewed here. String energy spectra computed in the near-pp-wave limit of these backgrounds match predictions encoded by discrete, asymptotic Bethe equations, suggesting that the twisted string theory is classically integrable in this regime. These Bethe equations can be derived algorithmically by relying on the existence of Lax representations, and on the Riemann–Hilbert interpretation of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz. This letter is a review of a seminar given at the Institute for Advanced Study, based on research completed in collaboration with McLoughlin.


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