Classification of (2,1) heterotic strings

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01156-8zbMATH Open0925.81286arXivhep-th/9706122MaRDI QIDQ1373940FDOQ1373940

Authors: A. N. Schellekens, E. Rabinovici 

Publication date: 26 November 1997

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We classify all untwisted (2,1) heterotic strings. The only solutions are the three already known cases, having massless spectra consisting either of 24 chiral fermions, or of 24 bosons, or of 8 scalars and 8 fermions of each chirality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9706122

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zbMATH Keywords

chiralitychiral fermionsbosons(2,1) heterotic string classificationmassless spectrauntwisted (2,1) heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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