26-dimensional string from 4-dimensional geometry
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instance of: scholarly article
title: 26-dimensional string from 4-dimensional geometry
zbMATH Open document ID: 0642.53090
DOI: 10.1007/BF00758970
author: James T. Wheeler
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A study of 4-dimensional volume preserving covariant changes of the metric leads directly to string theory in 26 dimensions. In any conformally invariant theory of such metric distortion, a new principle of relativity is shown to imply that the maximum number of independent components of the distortion tensor is 26. Within the simplest such theory allowing metric compatible spaces as trivial solutions, we show that this maximum is realized by a solution equivalent to the 26- dimensional bosonic string.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83E15
zbMATH DE Number: 4046628
zbMATH Keywords: string theory
zbMATH Keywords: principle of relativity
zbMATH Keywords: distortion tensor
zbMATH Keywords: bosonic string
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
cites work: On Weyl's gauge field.
cites work: On Weyl's gauge field. II.
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00758970
OpenAlex ID: W2076005856
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