Exactly stable non-BPS spinors in heterotic string theory on tori

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2013)051zbMATH Open1342.83422arXiv1207.5782MaRDI QIDQ302522FDOQ302522

Authors: Jihye Sofia Seo 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Considering SO(32) heterotic string theory compactified on a torus of dimension 4 and less, stability of non-supersymmetric states is studied. A non-supersymmetric state with robust stability is constructed, and its exact stability is proven in a large region of moduli space against all the possible decay mechanisms allowed by charge conservation. Using various T-duality transform matrices, we translate various selection rules about conserved charges into simpler problems resembling partition and parity of integers. For heterotic string on T^4, we give a complete list of BPS atoms with elementary excitations, and we study BPS and non-BPS molecules with various binding energies. Using string-string duality, the results are interpreted in terms of Dirichlet-branes in type IIA string theory compactified on an orbifold limit of a K3 surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5782

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zbMATH Keywords

string dualitysuperstrings and heterotic stringssupersymmetry and dualitysupersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• S-duality improved perturbation theory in compactified type I/heterotic string theory
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• Non-BPS states and heterotic-type I\('\) duality
• Massless BPS-saturated states on the two-torus moduli sub-space of heterotic string

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