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Motivated by a possibility of solving non-supersymmetric type 0 string theory in AdS5 × S5 background using integrability, we revisit the construction of type 0 string spectrum in some solvable examples of backgrounds with RR fluxes that are common to type IIB and type 0B theories. The presence of RR fluxes requires the use of a Green-Schwarz description for type 0 string theory. Like in flat space, the spectrum of type 0 theory can be derived from the type II theory spectrum by a (−1)F orbifolding, i.e. combining the untwisted sector where GS fermions are periodic with the twisted sector where GS fermions are antiperiodic (and projecting out all spacetime fermionic states). This construction of the type 0 spectrum may also be implemented using Melvin background that allows to continuously interpolate between the type II and type 0 theories. As an illustration, we discuss the type 0B spectrum in the pp-wave background which is the Penrose limit of AdS5 × S5 with RR 5-form flux and also in the pp-wave background which is the Penrose limit of AdS3 × S3 × T4 supported by mixed RR and NSNS 3-form fluxes. We show that increasing the strength of the RR flux increases the value of the effective normal ordering constant (which determines the mass of the type 0 tachyon in flat space) and thus effectively decreases the momentum-space domain of instability of the ground state. We also comment on the semiclassical sector of states of type 0B theory in AdS5 × S5.
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Skrzypek, T., Tseytlin, A.A. On type 0 string theory in solvable RR backgrounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 173 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2022)173
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