Spectral geometry of heterotic compactifications

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/9/317MaRDI QIDQ4935641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David D. Song, Richard J. Szabo

Publication date 31 January 2000

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9812235

zbMATH Keywords

superstringheterotic stringeffective target spacesintrinsic gauge field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)

Abstract: The structure of heterotic string target space compactifications is studied using the formalism of the noncommutative geometry associated with lattice vertex operator algebras. The spectral triples of the noncommutative spacetimes are constructed and used to show that the intrinsic gauge field degrees of freedom disappear in the low-energy sectors of these spacetimes. The quantum geometry is thereby determined in much the same way as for ordinary superstring target spaces. In this setting, non-abelian gauge theories on the classical spacetimes arise from the K-theory of the effective target spaces.

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