Non-supersymmetric orbifolds

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00336-XzbMATH Open0995.83059arXivhep-th/0202057OpenAlexW2151523673MaRDI QIDQ1600331FDOQ1600331

Alexis Hernández, Anamaría Font

Publication date: 12 June 2002

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

Abstract: We study compact non-supersymmetric Z_N orbifolds in various dimensions. We compute the spectrum of several tachyonic type II and heterotic examples and partially classify tachyon-free heterotic models. We also discuss the relation to compactification on K3 and Calabi-Yau manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202057

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zbMATH Keywords

spectrumcompactificationtachyon-free heterotic models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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