A limit of the worldvolume theory of the NS5-brane, which is a string theory of “little strings” in six dimensions.
Table of branes appearing in supergravity/string theory (for classification see at brane scan).
The original reference is
Review is in
Ofer Aharony, A brief review of “little string theories” , Class. Quant. Grav. 17 (2000) 929–938,
David Kutasov, Introduction to Little String Theory, Lectures 2001 (pdf)
Little string theories on heterotic string theory NS5-branes with supersymmetry:
and via F-theory methods:
The T-duality between type IIA and type IIB little strings is discussed in
Construction within F-theory is discussed in
See also
Mina Aganagic, Some mathematical applications of little string theory, talk at Strings 2016 (pdf)
Joonho Kim, Kimyeong Lee, Little strings on orbifolds (arXiv:1702.03116)
On D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theories with compact hyperkähler manifold Coulomb branches obtained by KK-compactification of little string theories:
Relation of little string theory to the quantum geometric Langlands correspondence is discussed in
also
Discussion with emphasis on terminology from higher gauge theory:
For light D-branes ending on NS5-branes (see there)
Rajesh Gopakumar, Shiraz Minwalla, Nathan Seiberg, Andrew Strominger, OM Theory in Diverse Dimensions, JHEP 0008:008, 2000 (arXiv:hep-th/0006062)
Troels Harmark, Open Branes in Space-Time Non-Commutative Little String Theory, Nucl.Phys. B593 (2001) 76-98 (arXiv:hep-th/0007147)
Jian Xin Lu, -Dimensional Open Brane Theories, JHEP 0108:049 (2001) [arXiv:hep-th/0102056, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/049]
See also
On a double-scaling limit of the BMN matrix model in which aspects of little string theory become visible:
Hai Lin, Juan Maldacena, Fivebranes from gauge theory, Phys. Rev. D 74 084014 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0509235, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.084014]
Henry Ling, Ali Reza Mohazab, Hsien-Hang Shieh, Greg van Anders, Mark Van Raamsdonk, Little String Theory from a Double-Scaled Matrix Model, JHEP 0610:018 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0606014, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/018]
Yuhma Asano, Goro Ishiki, Takaki Matsumoto, Shinji Shimasaki, Hiromasa Watanabe, On the existence of the NS5-brane limit of the plane wave matrix model, PTEP 2023 (2023) 4, 043B01 [arXiv:2211.13716, doi:10.1093/ptep/ptad042]
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