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World Sheet Logarithmic CFT in AdS Strings, Ghost-Matter Mixing and M-theory

Ian I. Kogan, Dimitri Polyakov

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0012128

Abstract

We discuss several closely related concepts in the NSR formulation of superstring theory. We demonstrated that recently proposed NSR model for superstrings on AdS5 × S5 is described by the world-sheet logarithmic conformal field theory (LCFT). The origin of LCFT on a world-sheet is closely connected to the matter-ghost mixing in the structure of a brane-like vortex operators. We suggest a dynamical origin of M theory as a string theory with an extra dimension given by bosonised superconformal ghosts.

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