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We discuss non-relativistic variants of four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory obtained from generalised Newton-Cartan geometric limits of D3-branes in ten-dimensional spacetime. We argue that the natural interpretation of these limits is that they correspond to non-relativistic D1-branes or D3-branes intersecting the original D3-branes. The resulting gauge theories have dynamics that reduce to quantum mechanics on monopole moduli space or two-dimensional sigma-models on Hitchin moduli space respectively. We show that these theories possess interesting infinite-dimensional symmetries and we discuss the dual AdS geometries.
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We would like to thank E. Bergshoeff and C. Blair for informative discussions. N.L. is supported in part by the STFC consolidated grant ST/X000753/1. J.S. is supported by the STFC studentship ST/W507556/1.
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Lambert, N., Smith, J. Non-relativistic intersecting branes, Newton-Cartan geometry and AdS/CFT. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 224 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)224
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