OCTONIONIC SUPERSTRING SOLITONS

被引:85
作者
HARVEY, JA [1 ]
STROMINGER, A [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,DEPT PHYS,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.549
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
An extended-soliton solution to the low-energy heterotic-field-theory equations of motion is constructed from an eight-dimensional octonionic instanton. The soliton describes a string in ten-dimensional Minkowski space, and preserves only one of the sixteen spacetime supersymmetries.
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