Moduli space of Chaudhuri-Hockney-Lykken strings

Journal Article · Thu Dec 14 23:00:00 EST 1995 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.52.7168· OSTI ID:147842

Chaudhuri, S; Polchinski, J ^[1]

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1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030 (United States)

We discuss an orbifold of the toroidally compactified heterotic string which gives a global reduction of the dimension of the moduli space while preserving the supersymmetry. This construction yields the moduli space of the first of a series of reduced rank theories with maximal supersymmetry discovered recently by Chaudhuri, Hockney, and Lykken. Such moduli spaces contain nonsimply laced enhanced symmetry points in any spacetime dimension {ital D}{lt}10. Precisely in {ital D}=4 the set of allowed gauge groups is invariant under electric-magnetic duality, providing further evidence for the {ital S} duality of the {ital D}=4 heterotic string. {copyright} 1995 The American Physical Society.

• OSTI ID: 147842
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 52; ISSN 0556-2821; ISSN PRVDAQ
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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