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What happens when you add a forgotten ghost to tensionless string theory?
Sarthak Duary, Sourav Maji
June 3, 2026
Tensionless strings live on a Carrollian spacetime that admits an additional scaling symmetry—one that previous quantizations overlooked. Adding this as a genuine gauge constraint requires a new ghost field (the Carroll-Weyl ghosts), which alters the ghost system from two fields to four and fundamentally changes how anomalies are calculated in this theory.
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