# Quantizing a solitonic string

## TL;DR

This paper explores the quantization of solitonic strings supported by non-conformal world-sheet sigma models, proposing a UV completion with a fixed point that enables consistent superstring quantization.

## Contribution

It introduces a UV completion for non-conformal WSSMs describing solitonic strings, demonstrating the existence of a superconformal fixed point suitable for string quantization.

## Key findings

- Identified UV fixed points in non-conformal WSSMs for solitonic strings.
- Constructed a ten-dimensional target space for superstring consistency.
- Provided a concrete example with non-Abelian vortices in
two SQCD.

## Abstract

Quite often the zero mode dynamics on solitonic vortices are described by a non-conformal effective world-sheet sigma model (WSSM). We address the problem of solitonic string quantization in this case. As well-known, only crfitical strings with superconformal WSSMs are self-consistent in ultra-violet (UV) domain. Thus, we look for the appropriate UV completion of the low-energy non-conformal WSSM. We ague that for the solitonic strings supported in well-defined bulk theories the UV complete WSSM has a UV fixed point which can be used for string quantization. As an example, we consider BPS non-Abelian vortices supported by four-dimensional (4D) \ntwo SQCD with the gauge group U$(N)$ and $N_f$ quark multiplets where $N_f\ge N$. In addition to translational moduli the non-Abelian vortex under consideration carries orientational and size moduli. Their low-energy dynamics are described by a two-dimensional \ntwot supersymmetric weighted model, namely, $\mathbb{WCP}(N, N_f-N)$. Given our UV completion of this WSSM we find its UV fixed point. The latter defines a superconformal WSSM. We observe two cases in which this conformal WSSM, combined with the free theory for four translational moduli, has ten-dimensional target space required for superstrings to be critical.