New Dimensions for Old Strings

Myers, Robert C.

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)90936-1

New Dimensions for Old Strings

Robert C. Myers
(
- Santa Barbara, KITP
)

Sep 1, 1987

6 pages

Published in:

Phys.Lett.B 199 (1987) 371-376

Published: 1987

DOI:

10.1016/0370-2693(87)90936-1

Report number:

NSF-ITP-87-110

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A simple configuration of background fields is constructed to provide consistent string theories in arbitrary dimensions. The background solution involves a dilation field which is a linear function of the space-time coordinates. This background has a new instability apart from the presence of tachyons in the free spectrum.

MODEL: STRING
string model: boson
FIELD THEORY: BACKGROUND FIELD
FIELD THEORY: DILATON
FIELD THEORY: HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL
STABILITY
FIELD EQUATIONS
FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: SIGMA
NONLINEAR
FIELD THEORY: TWO-DIMENSIONAL

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