Supersymmetries in free fermionic strings

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00481-0MaRDI QIDQ1901443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gerald Cleaver

Publication date 15 November 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9505080

zbMATH Keywords

free fermionsGSO projectionsheterotic stringssupercurrent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: Consistent heterotic free fermionic string models are classified in terms of their number of spacetime supersymmetries, N. For each of the six distinct choices of gravitino sector, we determine what number of supersymmetries can survive additional GSO projections. We prove by exhaustive search that only three of the six can yield N = 1, in addition to the N = 4, 2, or 0 that five of the six can yield. One choice of gravitino sector can only produce N = 4 or 0. Relatedly, we find that only Z_2, Z_4, and Z_8 twists of the internal fermions with worldsheet supersymmetry are consistent with N=1 in free fermionic models. Any other twists obviate N=1.

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