Remarks on the critical dimension of left-handed string and its quasiconformal nature

Abstract

The chiral string without a singular gauge limit is argued to have the same critical dimension as its corresponding conventional closed string. Thus, its central charge would be the same as its conventional counterpart in the conformal gauge. Here, we would re-examine the critical dimension of the chiral string in the singular Hohm-Siegel-Zwiebach limit. A straight forward calculation of the operator product expansion (OPE) of the corresponding would-be stress tensor shows that the central charge term is not the same as its conventional counterpart when taking the singular limit. Instead of having a conformal transformation on the worldsheet, the coordinate reparametrization provides a set of quasiconformal mappings.