Naturalness of three generations in free fermionic Z(2)-n x Z(4) string models

Faraggi, Alon E.; Nanopoulos, Dimitri V.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.48.3288

Naturalness of three generations in free fermionic Z(2)-n x Z(4) string models

Alon E. Faraggi
(
- Texas A-M and
- HARC, Woodlands
)
,
Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
(
- Texas A-M and
- HARC, Woodlands
)

Oct, 1990

19 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 48 (1993) 3288-3296

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.48.3288

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CTP-TAMU-78-90,
ACT-15-90

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Abstract: (APS)

We study the construction of free fermionic spin structure models with Z2n⊗Z4 boundary-condition vectors. We argue that requiring chiral space-time fermions in the massless spectrum and the existence of a well-defined hidden gauge group severely constrain the allowed boundary-condition vectors. We show that the minimal way to obtain these requirements is given by a unique set of Z25 boundary-condition vectors. We classify the possible extensions to this basic set. We argue that a result of this fundamental set is that obtaining three generations in this construction is correlated with projecting out all the enhanced gauge symmetries which arise from nonzero vacuum expectation values of background fields. We propose that this correlation and the properties of the fundamental Z25 subset suggest that three generations is natural in this construction.

string model
fermion: flavor
anomaly: conformal
gauge field theory
symmetry: Z(4) x Z(2)**N
supersymmetry
fermion: chiral
boundary condition
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