Model-building for fractional superstrings

Keith R. Dienes, S. H. Henry Tye

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Abstract

We investigate heterotic string-type model-building for the recently proposed fractional superstring theories. We concentrate on the cases with critical space-time dimensions four and six, and find that a correspondence can be drawn between the new fractional superstring models and a special subset of the traditional heterotic string models. This allows us to generate the partition functions of the new models, and demonstrate that their number is indeed relatively limited. It also appears that these strings have uniquely natural compactifications to lower dimensions. In particular, the Dc = 6 fractional superstring has a natural interpretation in four-dimensional space-time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)297-349
Number of pages53
JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
Volume376
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 8 1992
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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