# Nonrelativistic String Theory in Background Fields

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes the quantum consistency of nonrelativistic string theory in specific background fields by computing the Weyl anomaly and deriving the equations of motion for the background geometry, akin to gravity equations in relativistic string theory.

## Contribution

It derives the equations of motion for nonrelativistic string backgrounds from the conformal anomaly, establishing conditions for quantum consistency in these theories.

## Key findings

- Computed the Weyl anomaly for nonrelativistic string in Newton-Cartan backgrounds
- Derived background equations of motion from anomaly cancellation
- Established parallels between these equations and supergravity in relativistic string theory

## Abstract

Nonrelativistic string theory is a unitary, ultraviolet finite quantum gravity theory with a nonrelativistic string spectrum. The vertex operators of the worldsheet theory determine the spacetime geometry of nonrelativistic string theory, known as the string Newton-Cartan geometry. We compute the Weyl anomaly of the nonrelativistic string worldsheet sigma model describing strings propagating in a string Newton-Cartan geometry, Kalb-Ramond and dilaton background. We derive the equations of motion that dictate the backgrounds on which nonrelativistic string theory can be consistently defined quantum mechanically. The equations of motion we find from our study of the conformal anomaly of the worldsheet theory are to nonrelativistic string theory what the (super)gravity equations of motion are to relativistic string theory.