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Stringly restrictions on the backgrounds in the heterotic sigma model

Journal Article · · Modern Physics Letters A; (United States)
 [1];  [2]
  1. Dept. of Physics, Government College of Leather Technology, Canal South Road, Calcutta 700015 (IN)
  2. Inst. of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Madras 600113 (IN)
This paper shows that for the heterotic string theory in the presence of arbitrary background gauge, gravitational and antisymmetric tensor fields, truncated by a general coordinate dependent compactification a la Scherk-Schwarz, the requirement of 2D conformal invariance is as restrictive as to inhibit supersymmetry breaking with vanishing cosmological constant.
OSTI ID:
5262208
Journal Information:
Modern Physics Letters A; (United States), Journal Name: Modern Physics Letters A; (United States) Vol. 7:9; ISSN 0217-7323; ISSN MPLAE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English