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On the null origin of the ambitwistor string

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In this paper we present the null string origin of the ambitwistor string. Classically, the null string is the tensionless limit of string theory, and so too is the Ambitwistor string. Both have as constraint algebra the Galilean Conformal Algebra in two dimensions. But something interesting happens in the quantum theory since there is an ambiguity in quantizing the null string. We show that, given a particular choice of quantization scheme and a particular gauge, the null string coincides with the ambitwistor string both classically and quantum mechanically. We also show that the same holds for the spinning versions of the null string and Ambitwistor string. With these results we clarify the relationship between the Ambitwistor string, the null string, the usual string and the Hohm-Siegel-Zwiebach theory.

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Worldsheet Formalism for Decoupling Limits in String Theory

hep-th · 2023-11-17 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Develops worldsheet sigma model for fundamental strings in critical type IIA limit showing nodal singularities and derives T-duality web unifying decoupling limits including ambitwistor and Carrollian strings.

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  • Path integral quantization of null bosonic strings with Carroll-Weyl ghosts hep-th · 2026-06-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 13 · internal anchor

    Null bosonic string quantization on Carrollian worldsheets requires an extra scalar ghost pair for Carroll-Weyl scaling, yielding a bcs system that alters the BRST complex and anomaly cancellation beyond the standard BMS bc treatment.

  • Worldsheet Formalism for Decoupling Limits in String Theory hep-th · 2023-11-17 · unverdicted · none · ref 33 · internal anchor

    Develops worldsheet sigma model for fundamental strings in critical type IIA limit showing nodal singularities and derives T-duality web unifying decoupling limits including ambitwistor and Carrollian strings.

  • The spectrum of the bosonic ambitwistor string revisited hep-th · 2026-06-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 35 · internal anchor

    The bosonic ambitwistor string spectrum is confined to the massless sector and contains the dilaton, metric, Kalb-Ramond field plus an extra vector, but is non-unitary.