Supersymmetry and integrability of the elliptic $\mathrm{AdS}_3 \times \mathrm{S}^3 \times \mathrm{T}^4$ superstring

Abstract

We construct a 1-parameter family of Ramond-Ramond fluxes supporting the elliptic $\mathrm{AdS}_3 \times \mathrm{S}^3 \times \mathrm{T}^4$ metric with constant dilaton and preserving 8 of the 16 supercharges of the undeformed background. On the supersymmetric locus, we compute the tree-level worldsheet S-matrix in uniform light-cone gauge up to quadratic order in fermions and find that it non-trivially satisfies the classical Yang-Baxter equation. Moreover, imposing classical integrability and symmetries, we conjecture compatible processes quartic in fermions. We also investigate different limits of interest, including trigonometric deformations and the limit to the $\mathrm{AdS}_2 \times \mathrm{S}^2 \times \mathrm{T}^6$ superstring. Our results provide strong evidence for a supersymmetric and integrable elliptic deformation of the $\mathrm{AdS}_3 \times \mathrm{S}^3 \times \mathrm{T}^4$ superstring supported by Ramond-Ramond flux and a constant dilaton.