UV completions for non-critical strings

Compactifications of the physical superstring to two dimensions provide a general template for realizing 2D conformal field theories coupled to worldsheet gravity, i.e. non-critical string theories. Motivated by this observation, in this paper we determine the quasi-topological 8D theory which gover...

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Main Authors: Apruzzi, F, Hassler, F, Heckman, J, Melnikov, I
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer 2016