Comment on Toroidal Compactification of Heterotic Superstrings
Jul, 198617 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 35 (1987) 648
Report number:
- HUTP-86/A053
Citations per year
Abstract: (APS)
I comment on the use of background gauge fields and antisymmetric tensor fields in toroidal compactification of heterotic strings, and explicitly construct the background gauge field that interpolates between the E8×E8 and Spin(32)/Z2 theories defined on R9×S1.- MODEL: STRING
- SUPERSYMMETRY
- FIELD THEORY: compactification
- FIELD THEORY: HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: BACKGROUND FIELD
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: E(8) X E(8)
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SPIN(32)/Z(2)
- SPIN(32)/Z(2): GAUGE FIELD THEORY
- BOUNDARY CONDITION
References(2)
Figures(0)