Nonstandard parafermions and string compactification

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.08.027MaRDI QIDQ659372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrei Babichenko, Doron Gepner

Publication date 18 January 2012

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

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

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)

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.

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

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