MAXIMALLY SUPERSYMMETRIC STRING THEORIES IN D-LESS-THAN-10

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作者
CHAUDHURI, S [1 ]
HOCKNEY, G [1 ]
LYKKEN, J [1 ]
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[1] FERMILAB NATL ACCELERATOR LAB, DEPT THEORET PHYS, BATAVIA, IL 60510 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.2264
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The existence of maximally supersymmetric solutions to heterotic string theory that are not toroidal compactifications of the ten-dimensional superstring is established. We construct an exact fermionic realization of an N = 1 supersymmetric string theory in D = 8 with non-simply-laced gauge group Sp(20). Toroidal compactification to six and four dimensions gives maximally extended supersymmetric theories with reduced rank (4, 12) and (6, 14), respectively.
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页码:2264 / 2267
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