The Orbifolds of Permutation-Type as Physical String Systems at Multiples of c=26. I.Extended Actions and New Twisted World-Sheet Gravities

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/068arXivhep-th/0703044MaRDI QIDQ6467971FDOQ6467971

Authors: M. B. Halpern 

Publication date: 6 March 2007

Abstract: This is the first in a series of papers in which I investigate the orbifolds of permutation-type as candidates for {it new physical string systems} at multiples of critical closed-string central charges. Examples include the bosonic orientation orbifolds, the bosonic permutation orbifolds and others, as well as superstring extensions. In this paper I use the extended (twisted) Virasoro algebras of these orbifolds to construct the corresponding extended action formulations of the twisted open- and closed-string sectors of all the bosonic orbifolds at $hatc=26K$. The extended actions exhibit a large set of {it new twisted world-sheet gravities}, whose extended diffeomorphism groups clearly indicate that the associated operator-string theories can be free of negative- norm states at higher central charge.

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