ANALYSIS OF RUNNING COUPLING-CONSTANT UNIFICATION IN STRING THEORY

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作者
GAILLARD, MK [1 ]
XIU, RL [1 ]
机构
[1] LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,DIV PHYS,BERKELEY,CA 94720
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)90805-E
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We use recently obtained two-loop string coupling constants to analyze a class of string models based on orbifold compactification. Assuming weak coupling at the string scale m(s) and single-scale unification leads to restrictions on the spectrum of massive (M(Z) much less than M less-than-or-equal-to m(s)) matter supermultiplets and/or on the Kac-Moody algebra level.
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