Kavli Affiliate: Emil Martinec | Summary:We formulate a worldsheet description of string theory in the background of a single decoupled NS5-brane, which is a particularly simple example of “little string” holography. The worldsheet theory involves a gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten model for the group coset $mathcalG/mathcalH$, where $mathcalG = PSU(1,1 times mathbb R^5,1$ and $mathcalH=U(1) times U(1)$. […]
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