Vacuum configurations for superstrings
Abstract
We study candidate vacuum configurations in ten-dimensional O(32) and E 8 × E 8 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 E 8 × E 8 case, one of these possibilities leads to a model that in four dimensions has an E 6 gauge group with four standard generations of fermions.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- 1985
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- Bibcode:
- 1985NuPhB.258...46C