HETEROTIC STRING LIGHT CONE FIELD THEORY

Sep, 1986
60 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 287 (1987) 1-60
  • Published: 1987
Report number:
  • NSF-ITP-86-121

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We formulate the string field theory of the heterotic string in light-cone gauge. To understand how the geometric continuity conditions that define the string interaction are implemented for the chiral torus coordinates, we study string field theory on a torus. Supersymmetry and SO 8 invariance determine the operator insertions necessary for representing the super-Poincaré algebra. The field theory of strings on orbifolds is sketched.
  • FIELD THEORY: STRING
  • SUPERSYMMETRY
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: LIGHT CONE GAUGE
  • string model: boson
  • STRING: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: STRING
  • VERTEX FUNCTION
  • SYMMETRY: SO(8)
  • FIELD THEORY: HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD THEORY: compactification
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