Superstrings From Twentysix-dimensions

Feb, 1986
34 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 274 (1986) 315-348
  • Published: 1986
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-4360-86

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Consistent closed superstrings are contained in the 26-dimensional bosonic closed string theory. We explain in detail how the states, operators and interaction vertices of superstrings emerge in this way. We also discuss possibilities for obtaining new string theories.
  • MODEL: STRING
  • SUPERSYMMETRY
  • FIELD THEORY: HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD THEORY: DIMENSIONAL REDUCTION
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: E(8) X E(8)
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SO(32)
  • PARTICLE: MULTIPLET
  • MULTIPLET: PARTICLE
  • VERTEX FUNCTION
  • ALGEBRA: KAC-MOODY