Vacuum configurations for superstrings

P. Candelas; Gary T. Horowitz; Andrew Strominger; Edward Witten

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90602-9

Vacuum configurations for superstrings

P. Candelas
, Gary T. Horowitz
, Andrew Strominger
, Edward Witten

Physics

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We study candidate vacuum configurations in ten-dimensional O(32) and E₈ × E₈ supergravity and superstring theory that have unbroken N = 1 supersymmetry in four dimensions. This condition permits only a few possibilities, all of which have vanishing cosmological constant. In the E₈ × E₈ case, one of these possibilities leads to a model that in four dimensions has an E₆ gauge group with four standard generations of fermions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	46-74
Number of pages	29
Journal	Nuclear Physics, Section B
Volume	258
Issue number	C
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(85)90602-9
State	Published - 1985

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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