Superstrings with Spontaneously Broken Supersymmetry and their Effective Theories

Ferrara, Sergio; Kounnas, Costas; Porrati, Massimo; Zwirner, Fabio

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(89)90048-5

Superstrings with Spontaneously Broken Supersymmetry and their Effective Theories

Sergio Ferrara
(
- CERN and
- UCLA
)
,
Costas Kounnas
(
- Ecole Normale Superieure
)
,
Massimo Porrati
(
- UC, Berkeley and
- LBL, Berkeley and
- INFN, Padua
)
,
Fabio Zwirner
(
- UC, Berkeley and
- LBL, Berkeley and
- INFN, Padua
)

Aug, 1988

31 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 318 (1989) 75-105

Published: 1989

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(89)90048-5

Report number:

UCB/PTH/88/19,
LBL-25776,
LPTENS-88/28,
UCLA/88/TEP/27

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

We discuss superstring models with spontaneous breaking of N =1, 2 or 4 space-time supersymmetry, via coordinate-dependent compactifications from five to four dimensions. We provide a description of the supersymmetry breaking mechanism in the formulation with complex world-sheet fermions, and we reinterpret it in terms of special deformations of the lorentzian charge lattice. Considering a representative string model with spontaneously broken N =1 supersymmetry and massless chiral fermions, we show that the knowledge of the spectrum of states and of the flat directions completely specifies its low-energy effective lagrangian, which turns out to be a new no-scale supergravity model. We outline the qualitative difference between these models and other scenarios of gaugino (gravitino) condensation or general non-perturbative phenomena.

MODEL: STRING
SUPERSYMMETRY: SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN
FIELD THEORY: FIVE-DIMENSIONAL
FIELD THEORY: compactification
FIELD THEORY: FOUR-DIMENSIONAL
FIELD THEORY: EFFECTIVE ACTION
FIELD THEORY: MASSLESS
MASSLESS: FIELD THEORY
FERMION: CONDENSATION
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