2 papers
hep-th2025
The Weight of Little Strings: T-duality and Hasse Diagrams
Hamza Ahmed, Florent Baume, Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
We study the worldvolume theories of stacks of heterotic NS5-branes probing a transverse singularity . We revisit and extend the original clas…
hep-th2024
A Twist on Heterotic Little String Duality
Hamza Ahmed, Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann, Fabian Ruehle
In this work, we significantly expand the web of T-dualities among heterotic NS5-brane theories with eight supercharges. This is achieved by introducing twists involving outer auto…