Asymmetric orbifolds and grand unification
- Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-5001 (United States)
We generalize the rules for the free fermionic string construction to include other asymmetric orbifolds with world-sheet bosons. We use these rules to construct various grand unified string models that involve level-three current algebras. We present the explicit construction of three classes of three-chiral-family grand unified models in the heterotic string theory. Each model has five left-handed, and two right-handed families, and an adjoint Higgs representation. Two of them are SO(10) and the third is E{sub 6}. With Wilson lines and/or varying moduli, we show how other three-family grand unified models, such as SO(10) and SU(5), may be constructed from them. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- OSTI ID:
- 399911
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Vol. 54, Issue 12; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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