Stringly restrictions on the backgrounds in the heterotic sigma model

Journal Article · Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Modern Physics Letters A; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732392000719· OSTI ID:5262208

Sengupta, S ^[1]; Majumdar, P ^[2]

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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), Vol. 7:9; ISSN 0217-7323
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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