Large-volume string compactifications, revisited

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00129-6zbMATH Open1004.81546arXivhep-th/9606036OpenAlexW2049489175MaRDI QIDQ678525FDOQ678525

Authors: Elena Cáceres, V. Kaplunovsky, I. Michael Mandelberg 

Publication date: 24 April 1997

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

Abstract: We reconsider the issue of large-volume compactifications of the heterotic string in light of the recent discoveries about strongly-coupled string theories. Our conclusion remains firmly negative with respect to classical compactifications of the ten-dimensional field theory, albeit for a new reason: When the internal sixfold becomes large in heterotic units, the theory acquires an additional threshold at energies much less then the naive Kaluza-Klein scale. It is this additional threshold that imposes the ultimate limit on the compactification scale: Any compactification must have M_{Kaluza Klein} > 4*10^7 Gev; for most compactifications, the actual limit is much higher. (Generically, M_{Kaluza Klein} > alpha_{GUT} M_{Planck} in either SO(32) or E_8*E_8 heterotic string.)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606036

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zbMATH Keywords

heterotic stringM theorycompactification sizegrand unified theory scale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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