A NON-STANDARD STRING EMBEDDING OF E8

DOI10.1142/S0217732309030965zbMATH Open1168.81396arXiv0810.1038OpenAlexW2044697558MaRDI QIDQ3395417FDOQ3395417

Authors: R. Obousy, M. Robinson, Gerald Cleaver 

Publication date: 1 September 2009

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

Abstract: An algorithm to systematically and efficiently generate free fermionic heterotic string models was recently introduced. This algorithm has been adopted by the Free Fermionic Model Construction (FFMC) program at Baylor University. As its first application, the algorithm is being applied to systematically generate the complete set of free fermionic heterotic string models with untwisted left-moving (worldsheet supersymmetric) sectors, up to continually advancing Layer and Order. Statistical analysis of this study will be reported in the near future. However, in a series of separate notes we will be reporting some of the more interesting models that appear along the way. In this, our first such note, we reveal a different string embedding of E8 than is standard. That is, rather than realize E8 via an SO(16) embedding, 248 = 120 + 128, we realize it via an SU(9) embedding, 248 = 80 + 84 + 84-bar. This is obtained in a Layer 1, Order 6 model for which modular invariance itself dictates a gravitino sector accompany the gauge sector.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1038

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zbMATH Keywords

heterotic stringsstring model buildingstring landscapefree fermionic\(E_{8}\)gauge sectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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