Classical and Quantized Tensionless Strings

B. Sundborg; G. Theodoridis; J. Isberg; U. Lindstr\"om

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Classical and Quantized Tensionless Strings

J. Isberg, U. Lindström, B. Sundborg, G. Theodoridis

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 16 Jul 1993 · 37 references

Pith's verdict: A careful, honest long-form derivation whose headline conclusion was already in the authors' 1992 letter, and whose no-cancellation step is asserted more than proved.

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CitationB. Sundborg, G. Theodoridis, J. Isberg, U. Lindstr\"om. "Classical and Quantized Tensionless Strings." arXiv:hep-th/9307108 (1993). https://pith.science/paper/APPJXHC6

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This is the full version of the result Isberg, Lindström and Sundborg announced in Phys. Lett. 293B (1992). Read it as the technical backup, not as a new claim. The classical half is the part I'd actually keep on the shelf: the geometric action (18) with the vector density V^α, the demonstration that Weyl invariance is replaced by global space-time conformal invariance as T→0, the light-cone generators (58), and the compensating reparametrizations in Section 2.5 are all worked out explicitly and check out. That's genuinely useful material and it's the reason people cite this paper rather than the letter. The anomaly computation itself, eq. (104), is a concrete object and the surrounding algebra is laid out well enough to be reproduced. Credit where due: the paper is unusually candid about its open ends — the Hilbert space is not constructed, the zero-mode separation is unresolved, and the anomaly-as-constraint reading is called unconventional by the authors themselves. The abstract's 'modulo details concerning zero-modes' undersells how much the body admits; the body is the honest version. On the stress-test concern: it's half right. The argument that ε^n derivative corrections cannot cancel a 1/ε anomaly is fine as far as it goes, and the singular ordering term is pinned by Hermiticity. The real gap is the non-factorizable smearing kernel, where the paper says such corrections 'cannot affect the conclusions' without proving it. A two-point kernel producing a traceless σ-dependent 1/ε term of opposite sign would sink the constraint interpretation, and nothing rules that out. The authors state exhaustiveness as a result rather than an assumption. Second soft spot, less discussed: constraints (107,108) look like they force X^i(σ)=x^i, i.e. only zero modes, and the factorization caveat used to dodge that is thin. So the conclusion is conditional on two things the paper doesn't close. None of this is fatal — the anomaly is real and the interpretive move is defensible — but the diffeomorphism-singlet claim should be read as 'if the regularization is exhaustive and the zero-mode story works out,' not as established. Who should read it: anyone working the tensionless/high-energy limit, and anyone interested in anomaly-as-constraint reasoning. Worth a serious referee; the classical sections and the anomaly derivation deserve scrutiny and the paper is transparent enough to survive it.

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This is an influential and structurally clean paper. The geometric action (Eq. 18) and the demonstration that space-time conformal symmetry replaces world-sheet Weyl symmetry in the T→0 limit (Eqs. 32–33) are elegant, checkable, and have been widely used. The explicit light-cone generators (Eq. 58) and the compensating reparametrizations (Eq. 79) are worked out in detail and are a genuine service to the field. The anomaly computation (Eq. 104) is a concrete, falsifiable calculation rather than a plausibility claim, and the resulting constraint on the physical Hilbert space is a sharp and surprising statement. The paper is also candid about what it has not done: it states that it has not constructed the Hilbert space, only derived restrictions on it, and it flags the zero-mode subtleties in the abstract and in the discussion. These are strengths, not weaknesses, and they should be weighed in the assessment.

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[§3.2, 'Anomaly cancellation?' (pp. 26–27)] The no-cancellation argument is load-bearing for the central claim, and as written it rests on an asserted rather than derived classification of allowed corrections. The paper lists three classes of correction to p_− and k_i — the singular ordering term iℏε⁻¹X^i, a regular ℏX^i term, and ε^n derivative terms — and then says of the derivative terms 'We refrain from classifying them since we can instead show that their presence will not change our conclusions.' For non-factorizable regularizations it says such corrections 'can be treated as giving rise to correction terms, small in the parameter ε' and that 'such corrections cannot affect the conclusions.' Since the anomaly (Eq. 104) is O(1/ε), the whole weight sits on the premise that non-factorizable smearing produces only positive-power-ε corrections. The paper should make this premise explicit and argue it: the 1/ε coefficient is fixed by the δ-function in the regularized canonical commutator (Eq. 94), and any regularization that reproduces (Eq. 94) in the local limit should give the same 1/ε coefficient up to O(ε⁰). Stating that argument, or exhibiting the most general two-point smearing kernel and showing its contribution to [k_i, m_{j−}] is O(ε⁰) or higher, would close the gap. As it stands, a reader cannot tell whether the conclusion follows from the short-distance structure of the canonical commutator or from a choice of regulator.
[Eq. (104)] The anomaly is quoted only up to a proportionality constant ('∝'), with an 'h.c.' and a 't.l.' (traceless) prescription that are not defined precisely at the point of use. For the no-cancellation argument the coefficient need only be nonzero, but the paper should either state the exact coefficient or argue explicitly that it is nonzero and independent of the regularization scheme. The 'h.c.' and 't.l.' operations should be defined in a displayed equation rather than left to the reader, since the traceless part is what carries the physical content of the constraint (Eq. 105).
[§3.2, Discussion (iii), and §4 Conclusions] The diffeomorphism-singlet conclusion depends on a Hilbert space that the paper explicitly says it has not constructed: 'we have not constructed the Hilbert space, only derived restrictions on it.' The constraints (107,108) are argued to look like sums of squares, but the paper itself notes that the factorization tacitly assumed in that argument is not strictly true under regularization. This is acknowledged, and the abstract flags the zero-mode caveat, but the central claim [abstract:s4] is therefore conditional on imposing the anomaly constraints on a state space whose existence has not been demonstrated. The paper should state this conditionality more sharply in the conclusions, distinguishing 'the anomaly forces these constraints on any Hilbert space on which the conformal algebra acts' from 'the resulting singlet condition is a derived property of a constructed theory.' The distinction matters for how the topological-theory hint should be read.
[§3.2, Discussion (iii), and Appendix] The step from the σ-dependent special linear constraints (Eq. 105) to diffeomorphism singlets invokes Ogievetsky's theorem that special linear plus conformal transformations generate all analytic diffeomorphisms. That theorem is published and is properly cited, so the citation itself is not at issue. What is at issue is the application: the theorem concerns the full algebra, whereas the paper's constraints are imposed with zero-modes excluded, and the paper says 'the separation of zero-modes is quite subtle, and it may turn out that some additional non-topological structure survives.' The paper should say explicitly whether the Ogievetsky step survives the zero-mode exclusion, or whether the topological conclusion is contingent on a zero-mode separation that has not been established.

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[Eq. (58)] The generators are given at τ=0. The paper should state how they evolve in τ, or note explicitly that the algebra is checked at τ=0 and that the τ-dependence is fixed by the Hamiltonian (Eq. 56).
[§2.2] The exceptional case in which field lines of the vector density are closed around the cylinder is excluded from consideration without discussion of its physical consequences. A sentence on whether this case is expected to change the quantum conclusions, or is genuinely a measure-zero sector, would help.
[§3.2, after Eq. (104)] The statement that 'massless scalar point-particles, described by the constant zero-modes, do admit a quantum conformal symmetry' is a useful check but is stated without demonstration. A short display of the point-particle algebra would strengthen it.
[Appendix] The vacuum choice (Eq. 109) is justified by elimination of alternatives rather than derived. A sentence connecting it to the reference ordering (Eq. 96) and to the statement that P^i annihilates the ground state would make the logic easier to follow.
[Introduction] Reference [17] is a letter version of this paper, and the introduction discloses this. It would help the reader to state which results are new here and which appeared in [17], particularly for the anomaly (Eq. 104) and the singlet conclusion.
[Throughout] There are several typographical errors that should be corrected: 'choosen' in §2.1, 'repectively' in §2.2, 'descibed' in §3.1, and 'apppearence' in §4. Some of the spacing artifacts in the title and abstract may be typesetting rather than author errors, but the four listed are in the running text.

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If the tensionless string keeps its space-time conformal symmetry after quantization, its physical states must be singlets under space-time diffeomorphisms.

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The paper asks what happens to a string when its tension is taken to zero. The authors derive a geometric action for this limit, built from a world-sheet vector density $V^alpha$ rather than a world-sheet metric, and show that the Weyl symmetry of the ordinary string is replaced by a global conformal symmetry of space-time itself. They then quantize the model in the light-cone gauge and demand that this conformal algebra survive as an algebra of quantum operators. The calculation produces an unavoidable, regulator-divergent anomaly, and the only way to keep the symmetry is to impose that physical states be annihilated by all $sigma$-dependent special linear transformations of the canonical variables. Because those transformations plus conformal ones generate analytic space-time diffeomorphisms, the physical state space collapses toward a topological theory, a conclusion the authors present as a hint rather than a construction.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the tensionless action $S = int d^2xi, V^alpha V^beta partial_alpha X^m partial_beta X^n eta_{mn}$, where $V^alpha$ is a world-sheet vector density of weight $frac{1}{4}$ replacing the degenerate metric density $Tsqrt{-g},g^{alpha beta}$. This action makes the replacement of Weyl invariance by space-time conformal invariance manifest: a conformal transformation of $X^m$ rescales the induced metric, and a compensating $X$-dependent rescaling of $V^alpha$ leaves the action invariant, which is impossible for the tensile action because any rescaling of $g_{alpha beta}$ is already a symmetry there. The second piece of machinery is the light-cone operator algebra: the classical generators in eq. (58), the regularized commutators of $M(sigma) = p^+ X^-(sigma)$ in eq. (103), and the recursive reconstruction of the whole conformal algebra from $p^i$, $p^+$, $p^-$ and $k^i$, which is what isolates the anomaly and shows that only one independent ordering constant exists.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the tensionless closed bosonic string cannot retain its classical space-time conformal symmetry at the quantum level without a drastic restriction of its Hilbert space. Working in the light-cone gauge, the authors build the conformal generators from the transverse coordinates and momenta plus the composite operator $X^-(sigma)$, regularize products by smearing the canonical commutator with a scale $epsilon$, and organize possible corrections by power counting. They then find that the commutator $[k_i, m_{j-}] + delta_{ij} k_-$ fails to close: it produces a term proportional to $frac{1}{epsilon p^+}$ times the traceless part of the $sigma$-dependent special linear generator $X^i P^j - x^i p^j + text{h.c.}$ (eq. 104). The anomaly vanishes for constant zero-modes, so it is caused purely by the extendedness of the string, and the authors argue it cannot be removed by rescaling generators, by tuning model parameters, or by local derivative counterterms. Requiring the symmetry to survive, they impose the anomaly and its conformal descendants as constraints on physical states, which yields invariance under all $sigma$-dependent special linear transformations and, via Ogievetsky's result that these together with conformal transformations generate analytic diffeomorphisms, points to diffeomorphism singlets. The authors are explicit that they have not constructed the Hilbert space, and that the coupling between zero-modes and $sigma$-dependent modes is not fully resolved.

Load-bearing premise

The conclusion depends on the assumption that smearing the canonical commutator with a single scale, plus power counting in that scale, captures every correction the conformal generators can receive, so that no non-factorizable regularization or derivative counterterm can cancel the $1/epsilon$ anomaly.

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If this is right

Physical states of the quantized tensionless string must be annihilated by the $sigma$-dependent special linear generators $X^m(sigma)P^n(sigma) - x^m p^n + text{h.c.}$, not merely by their transverse components.
Because special linear and conformal transformations together generate analytic space-time diffeomorphisms, physical states should be diffeomorphism singlets, so the spectrum is characterized by topology of the string's loop rather than by local field data.
Further constraints from $[k_+, k_-] = 0$ and its commutators imply relations of the form $int dsigma,(X^i - x^i)(X^i - x^i)|PHYS> = 0$ and its momentum analogues, indicating massless, spinless states of zero scaling dimension.
Quantum Poincaré symmetry alone survives without obstruction, so the critical-dimension question for the tensionless string is not settled by the Lorentz-algebra route that works for the tensile string.
The result is consistent with high-energy string selection rules in which scattering amplitudes reduce to tachyon-like amplitudes dressed by kinematic polarization factors.
The anomaly vanishes for constant zero-modes, so a single massless point particle does admit a quantum conformal symmetry; only the extended string fails.

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If the diffeomorphism-singlet conclusion holds, the tensionless limit is not a limit of ordinary string theory at all in the naive sense: it is a different phase in which the local degrees of freedom have been gauged away, and the tensionless limit of tensile amplitudes would have to be recovered through a subtle zero-mode sector rather than through a smooth deformation.
The anomaly's dependence on $1/(epsilon p^+)$ suggests a concrete check: a lattice or mode-truncated version of the light-cone theory should exhibit a residual violation of the conformal commutator that scales inversely with the short-distance cutoff and inversely with $p^+$, which is in principle measurable in a numerical truncation study.
The authors' reliance on power counting to exclude cancelling counterterms is the natural place for a follow-up: an exhaustive classification of non-factorizable smearings, or a BRST treatment in a conformally covariant formulation with extra constraints and ghosts, would either confirm the obstruction or produce the missing cancellation.
If physical states are labelled by loop topology such as self-intersection number, the natural next object is an interacting tensionless theory whose vertex operators are topological invariants; the multi-string Hilbert space, not the single-string one, is where this proposal would be tested.

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{}From the ordinary tensile string we derive a geometric action for the tensionless ($T=0$) string and discuss its symmetries and field equations. The Weyl symmetry of the usual string is shown to be replaced by a global space-time conformal symmetry in the $T\to 0$ limit. We present the explicit expressions for the generators of this group in the light-cone gauge. Using these, we quantize the theory in an operator form and require the conformal symmetry to remain a symmetry of the quantum theory. Modulo details concerning zero-modes that are discussed in the paper, this leads to the stringent restriction that the physical states should be singlets under space-time diffeomorphisms, hinting at a topological theory. We present the details of the calculation that leads to this conclusion.

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{}From the ordinary tensile string we derive a geometric action for the tensionless ($T=0$) string and discuss its symmetries and field equations. The Weyl symmetry of the usual string is shown to be replaced by a global space-time conformal symmetry in the $T\to 0$ limit. We present the explicit expressions for the generators of this group in the light-cone gauge. Using these, we quantize the theory in an operator form and require the conformal symmetry to remain a symmetry of the quantum theory. Modulo details concerning zero-modes that are discussed in the paper, this leads to the stringent restriction that the physical states should be singlets under space-time diffeomorphisms, hinting at a topological theory. We present the details of the calculation that leads to this conclusion.

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Null strings exhibit an independent Carroll-Weyl gauge symmetry that necessitates an extended BMS₃ algebra of constraints.
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hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

The paper claims a new local symmetry of null strings forces a third constraint, giving D−3 physical degrees of freedom.
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hep-th 2025-10 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

The paper classifies families of closed bosonic string solutions in the near-horizon non-extremal BTZ spacetime and identifies novel features via string-Carroll expansion.
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hep-th 2025-01 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

The Carrollian superstring in the flipped vacuum has a non-truncated spectrum with nonzero winding in the infinite-radius limit, and its three-point graviton amplitudes match tensile superstring results up to location...
Towards Quantizing Null p-branes: Light-Cone Gauge Analysis and Physical Hilbert Space
hep-th 2024-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Quantized null p-branes in light-cone gauge have physical Hilbert spaces split into p+1 classes of standing-wave states.
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hep-th 2023-11 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

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hep-th 2022-07 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

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hep-th 2020-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

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hep-th 2015-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Tensionless closed strings have a vacuum that is a Bogoliubov-squeezed state of ordinary string oscillators, and their physical states are not mass eigenstates.
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hep-th 2014-03 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

A discrete family of conformal Carroll algebras, labelled by an integer k, contains the BMS and Newman-Unti groups and clarifies their relation to conformal Galilei symmetry.
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hep-th 2026-10 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

The radial sector of the Carroll-Weyl gauged null string in Poincaré AdS_D is BRST-contractible, so its local cohomology reduces exactly to the (D-1)-dimensional ILST complex, with D=27 mapping to d=26.
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Tensionless p-branes and branes in degenerate-metric spacetimes admit symmetry transformations built from Killing tensors of arbitrary rank, extending string W-symmetries to all brane dimensions.
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Two boundary superconformal Carroll algebras are constructed, and the homogeneous one is shown to be the worldsheet symmetry algebra of a newly constructed open null superstring.
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hep-th 2024-12 reject novelty 5.0 of 10

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hep-th 2019-01 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Ultra-relativistic limits of scalars, fermions, electrodynamics and Yang-Mills theory coupled to matter yield equations of motion invariant under the infinite conformal Carrollian (BMS) algebra in four dimensions.
Tensionless Superstrings: View from the Worldsheet
hep-th 2016-06 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

The residual gauge symmetry of the tensionless superstring in the conformal-like gauge is the homogeneous 2d Super Galilean Conformal Algebra, which matches the 3d Super-BMS algebra of asymptotically flat supergravity.
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hep-th 2016-06 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

The ambitwistor string is the tensionless null string quantized in a twisted vacuum and fixed to a chiral gauge, which explains the shared scattering equations and the differing bosonic and spinning spectra.
Tensionless Strings and Galilean Conformal Algebra
hep-th 2013-03 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

The residual gauge symmetry of the tensionless closed bosonic string in the conformal-like gauge is the 2d Galilean Conformal Algebra, arising as a contraction of the two Virasoro algebras of the tensile string.
What is Classical Null String Theory?
hep-th 2026-09 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

A classical null string must supplement the ILST action with the Carroll-Weyl Gauss-law constraint P·X=0, reducing the local degrees of freedom by one.
Stringy gravity, interacting tensionless strings and massless higher spins
hep-th 2001-03 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

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hep-th 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 3.0 of 10

The conformal null string reduces from d+2 to d dimensions via Dirac slices, with the Virasoro-su(1,1) algebra mapping to Carrollian-Weyl symmetry.
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A structured primer that assembles the kinematical algebras, homogeneous spacetimes, particle actions, gravity theories and limiting field theories of non-lorentzian physics into a single self-contained account.
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hep-th 2018-04 conditional novelty 3.0 of 10

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Nonrelativistic string theory is presented as a self-contained, unitary, UV-complete corner of string theory linked by T-duality to the DLCQ of relativistic strings and to torsional string Newton-Cartan geometry.
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hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted

The scale transformation symmetry of tensionless strings has been treated in numerous prior classical and quantum studies.

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It is important to note that this action generalizes the so-called ILST action [ref] , originally proposed for tensionless strings in flat spacetime, by incorporating a consistent coupling to a constant antisymmetric tensor field.

From closed to open strings: the tensionless route in Kalb-Ramond background and noncommutativity (2025) · Tensionless strings in the presence of a uniform Kalb–Ramond field · 1.00

Uses its method or tool 5 papers · 1 by the same authors

Defined its generators in the reference order, with all P_n and p_- to the right of X_n and x^- respectively, following this paper.

Quantum 3D Tensionless String in Light-cone Gauge (2013) · 0.98 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
Our formulation of the tensionless null string follows [ref] , starting with the well-known Polyakov action of the tensile string, S=- T/2 ∫τσ√(γ) γ^ab ∂_a X^μ∂_b X^ν G_μν(X) Pol where $T∝1/α'$ is the string tension, $γ^ab$ is the worldsheet metric, and $G_μν$ is the metric on which the string propagates.

Horizon Strings as 3d Black Hole Microstates (2022) · Classical tensionless null strings · 0.96
We consider the intrinsically tensionless string described by the Isberg-Lindstrom-Sundborg-Theodoridis (ILST) action [ref] [equation] where $X^μ(σ)$ are target-space embedding coordinates and $V^a$ is a worldsheet vector density.

Covariant phase space approach to noncommutativity in tensile and tensionless open strings (2026) · CPS for tensionless strings · 0.84
Followed an analysis of this paper, which it performed in the ambitwistor gauge.

On the null origin of the ambitwistor string (2016) · 0.92 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting

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However, if we again use[This is the condition allowing partial integration found in [ref] .] $∇̃_aV^a=0$, we may write 0=𝕂 =V^a_a𝕂=_a(V^a𝕂) , so that the construction in Sec. [ref] applies _τ(V^τ𝕂)+_σ(V^σ𝕂)=0 .

Tensionless Strings and Killing(-Yano) Tensors (2022) (same authors) · Particle-like invariants · 0.90

Compares with it 1 of 2 papers with this label

As the well versed reader can spot, the “timelike” action in our notion is indeed the single scalar field version of the null string action [ref] , and also the action discussed in [ref] .

Carroll covariant scalar fields in two dimensions (2022) · BMS invariance on flat Carroll background · 0.90

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A lightcone analysis of the quantized bosonic tensionless string leads to severe constraints on the physical states: they are space-time diffeomorphism singlets characterized by their topological properties only.

The Zero Tension Limit of Strings and Superstrings · 0.98

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Consequently, the results and statements in existing null string literature?of which references [ref] are representative examples, requires a thorough and critical reassessment.

An Inconsistency in the Null Strings Literature: The Tale of an Overlooked Symmetry · Introduction · contest 0.79

Builds on it 1 paper

It is important to note that this action generalizes the so-called ILST action [ref] , originally proposed for tensionless strings in flat spacetime, by incorporating a consistent coupling to a constant antisymmetric tensor field.

From closed to open strings: the tensionless route in Kalb-Ramond background and noncommutativity · Tensionless strings in the presence of a uniform Kalb–Ramond field · 1.00

Uses its method or tool 5 papers

In this paper, we write operators by the Fourier expansion and choose the "reference ordering"[In the reference ordering all P-modes and $p_-$ are to the right of all X-modes and $x^-$ [ref] .].

Quantum 3D Tensionless String in Light-cone Gauge · Introduction · 1.00
We consider the intrinsically tensionless string described by the Isberg-Lindstrom-Sundborg-Theodoridis (ILST) action [ref] [equation] where $X^μ(σ)$ are target-space embedding coordinates and $V^a$ is a worldsheet vector density.

Covariant phase space approach to noncommutativity in tensile and tensionless open strings · CPS for tensionless strings · 0.84
Our formulation of the tensionless null string follows [ref] , starting with the well-known Polyakov action of the tensile string, S=- T/2 ∫τσ√(γ) γ^ab ∂_a X^μ∂_b X^ν G_μν(X) Pol where $T∝1/α'$ is the string tension, $γ^ab$ is the worldsheet metric, and $G_μν$ is the metric on which the string propagates.

Horizon Strings as 3d Black Hole Microstates · Classical tensionless null strings · 0.96

Compares with it 2 papers

It is instructive to contrast our construction with the null string [ref] , which is forced to move on a null hypersurface in Lorentzian spacetime, so that the worldsheet symmetries become conformal Carrollian [ref] instead of remaining two copies of the Virasoro algebra.

Strings near black holes are Carrollian · Introduction · 0.99
As the well versed reader can spot, the “timelike” action in our notion is indeed the single scalar field version of the null string action [ref] , and also the action discussed in [ref] .

Carroll covariant scalar fields in two dimensions · BMS invariance on flat Carroll background · 0.90

Cites it as support 1 paper

In 3d, these are precisely the symmetries of the worldsheet of a null string theory [ref] , thus motivating our postulate.

Horizon Strings as 3d Black Hole Microstates · Introduction and motivation · 0.99

Cites it as background 44 papers

The first comprehensive quantum treatment [ref] , hereafter referred to as the ILST null string, showed that the worldsheet Weyl invariance of the tensile string is replaced by a global target-space conformal symmetry $SO(D,2)$ in the tensionless limit.

Quantum Anomalies of Tensionless Bosonic Strings · Introduction · 0.90
Various definitions of the action for a null string have been proposed [ref] to describe the high energy limit of the string theory.

A Note on Stress-Energy Tensor and Variational Principle for Null Strings · Introduction · 0.93
The dynamics of a tensionless closed-string worldsheet on a flat Minkowski background is governed by the ILST action [ref] [equation] where $V^a$ is a vector density that replaces the role of the tensile worldsheet metric appearing in [ref] in the $𝒯→0$ limit.

New-born strings are tensionless · Emergence of a tensionless phase · 0.84

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