Nonstandard parafermions and string compactification

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.08.027zbMATH Open1229.81218arXiv1107.0663OpenAlexW2119697905MaRDI QIDQ659372FDOQ659372

Authors: Andrei Babichenko, Doron Gepner 

Publication date: 18 January 2012

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

Abstract: Nonstandard parafermions are built and their central charges and dimensions are calculated. We then construct new N=2 superconformal field theories by tensoring the parafermions with a free boson. We study the spectrum and modular transformations of these theories. Superstring and heterotic strings in four dimensions are then obtained by tensoring the new superconformal field theories along with some minimal models. The generations and antigenerations are studied. We give an example of the $1^2(5,7)$ theory which is shown to have three net generations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0663

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Cites Work

• Parafermionic theory with the symmetry \(\mathbb Z_N\), for \(N\) odd
• On conformal field theories at fractional levels.

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• New string theories and their generation number

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