Abstract
Toverline{T} deformed conformal field theories can be reformulated as worldsheet theories of non-critical strings. We use this correspondence to compute and study the Toverline{T} deformed partition sum of a symmetric product CFT. We find that it takes the form of a partition sum of a second quantized string theory with a worldsheet given by the product of the seed CFT and a gaussian sigma model with the two-torus as target space. We show that deformed symmetric product theory admits a natural UV completion that exhibits a strong weak coupling ℤ2 duality that interchanges the momentum and winding numbers and maps the Toverline{T} -coupling λ to its inverse 1/λ. The ℤ2 duality is part of a full O(2, 2, ℤ)-duality group that includes a PSL(2, ℤ) acting on the complexified Toverline{T} coupling. The duality symmetry eliminates the appearance of complex energies at strong coupling for all seed CFTs with central charge c ≤ 6.
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