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Double Wick rotating Green-Schwarz strings

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Via an appropriate field redefinition of the fermions, we find a set of conditions under which light cone gauge fixed world sheet theories of strings on two different backgrounds are related by a double Wick rotation. These conditions take the form of a set of transformation laws for the background fields, complementing a set of transformation laws for the metric and B field we found previously with a set for the dilaton and RR fields, and are compatible with the supergravity equations of motion. Our results prove that at least to second order in fermions, the AdS_5 x S^5 mirror model which plays an important role in the field of integrability in AdS/CFT, represents a string on `mirror AdS_5 x S^5', the background that follows from our transformations. We discuss analogous solutions for AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4 and AdS_2 x S^2 x T^6. The main ingredient in our derivation is the light cone gauge fixed action for a string on an (almost) completely generic background, which we explicitly derive to second order in fermions.

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Wick-connected theories and Lorentz violation

hep-th · 2026-06-05 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Without Lorentz invariance, double Wick rotations connect inequivalent field theories in flat spacetime, with criteria for when propagating modes, unitarity, and renormalizability fail to translate.

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  • Wick-connected theories and Lorentz violation hep-th · 2026-06-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 25 · internal anchor

    Without Lorentz invariance, double Wick rotations connect inequivalent field theories in flat spacetime, with criteria for when propagating modes, unitarity, and renormalizability fail to translate.