Cosmology meets Particle Physics: Ideas & Measurements

The massless string spectrum on AdS_3 x S^3 from the supergroup

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1m

DESY Main Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Speaker

Sebastian Gerigk (ETH Zurich)

Description

A detailed description of the space of states underlying the hybrid formulation of string theory on AdS_3 x S^3 with pure NS-NS flux is given. The cohomology characterising the massless string states is computed, and the result is shown to agree with the expected supergravity answer.

Presentation materials

Slides

Gerigk.pdf