Comment on Toroidal Compactification of Heterotic Superstrings

Jul, 1986
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 35 (1987) 648
Report number:
  • HUTP-86/A053

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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