Generalised chiral null models and rotating string backgrounds

TL;DR

This paper extends conformal sigma models called chiral null models to include both left and right vector couplings, describing non-BPS string backgrounds with rotations, and analyzes their geometric and conformal properties.

Contribution

It introduces a generalized class of chiral null models with dual couplings, capturing non-BPS rotating string and brane backgrounds, and studies their conformal and geometric features.

Findings

Rotating backgrounds can be singular or non-asymptotically flat.

Non-flat solutions have a regular short-distance limit with twisted WZW models.

The models describe non-BPS string solutions with rotation parameters.

Abstract

We consider an extension of a special class of conformal sigma models (`chiral null models') which describe extreme supersymmetric string solutions. The new models contain both `left' and `right' vector couplings and should correspond to non-BPS backgrounds. In particular, we discuss a conformal six-dimensional model which is a combination of fundamental string and 5-brane models with two extra couplings representing rotations in orthogonal planes. If the two rotational parameters are independent the resulting background is found to be either singular or not asymptotically flat. The non asymptotically flat solution has a regular short distance limit described by a `twisted' product of SL(2,R) and SU(2) WZW theories with two twist parameters mixing the isometric Euler angles of SU(2) with a null direction of SL(2,R).