Heterotic coset models

DOI10.1142/S0217732395000582MaRDI QIDQ2728009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clifford V. Johnson

Publication date 31 July 2001

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409062

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: A description is given of how to construct (0,2) supersymmetric conformal field theories as coset models. These models may be used as non-trivial backgrounds for Heterotic String Theory. They are realised as a combination of an anomalously gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten model, right-moving supersymmetric fermions, and left-moving current algebra fermions. Requiring the sum of the gauge anomalies from the bosonic and fermionic sectors to cancel yields the final model. Applications discussed include exact models of extremal four-dimensional charged black holes and Taub-NUT solutions of string theory. These coset models may also be used to construct important families of (0,2) supersymmetric Heterotic String compactifications. The Kazama-Suzuki models are the left-right symmetric special case of these models.

Cited in

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• The abelian heterotic conifold
• Heterotic coset models and (0,2) string vacua
• Stringy holography at finite density
• Electric/magnetic deformations of S³ and AdS₃, and geometric cosets
• Fivebranes and 4-manifolds
• NS5-brane backgrounds and coset CFT partition functions
• Coset models and D-branes in group manifolds

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