Spontaneous Supersymmetry Breaking in String Theory

Feb, 1988
16 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 310 (1988) 355-370
  • Published: 1988
Report number:
  • UCB-PTH-88/1,
  • LBL-24789,
  • LPTENS-88/3

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present a construction of string theories, with spontaneously broken supersymmetry and chiral fermion families, obtained by a suitable choice of boundary conditions in toroidal compactifications of ten-dimensional (1,1) or heterotic models. The crystallographic groups in four-dimensions determine the possible values of the supersymmetry-breaking parameters, which therefore are discrete.
  • MODEL: STRING
  • SUPERSYMMETRY: SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN
  • FERMION: CHIRAL
  • FERMION: FLAVOR
  • FIELD THEORY: PARTITION FUNCTION
  • INVARIANCE: REPARAMETRIZATION