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little string theory

Idea

A limit of the worldvolume theory of the NS5-brane.

Related concepts

Table of branes appearing in supergravity/string theory (for classification see at brane scan).

brane	in supergravity	charged under gauge field	has worldvolume theory
black brane	supergravity	higher gauge field	SCFT
D-brane	type II	RR-field	super Yang-Mills theory
$(D=2n)$	type IIA	$$	$$
D0-brane	$$	$$	BFSS matrix model
D2-brane	$$	$$	$$
D4-brane	$$	$$	D=5 super Yang-Mills theory with Khovanov homology observables
D6-brane	$$	$$
D8-brane	$$	$$
$(D=2n+1)$	type IIB	$$	$$
D1-brane	$$	$$	2d CFT with BH entropy
D3-brane	$$	$$	N=4 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory
D5-brane	$$	$$	$$
D7-brane	$$	$$	$$
D9-brane	$$	$$	$$
NS-brane	type I, II, heterotic	circle n-connection	$$
string	$$	B2-field	2d SCFT
NS5-brane	$$	B6-field	little string theory
M-brane	11D SuGra/M-theory	circle n-connection	$$
M2-brane	$$	C3-field	ABJM theory, BLG model
M5-brane	$$	C6-field	6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT
M9-brane			heterotic string theory
topological M2-brane	topological M-theory	C3-field on G2-manifold
topological M5-brane	$$	C6-field on G2-manifold

References

The original reference is

• Nathan Seiberg, New theories in six dimensions and matrix description of M-theory on $T^5$ and $T^5/{\mathbb{Z}}_2$ Phys. Lett. B408 (1997) 98–104 (arXiv:arXiv:hep-th/9705221)

A review is in

• Ofer Aharony, A brief review of “little string theories” , Class. Quant. Grav. 17 (2000) 929–938, (arXiv:hep-th/9911147).