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Can strings live in four dimensions?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Using a novel, non-perturbative, time-dependent string configuration derived in [1], we present here an argument which selects new critical dimensions for the target space time of a bosonic sigma model, with D=4 the lowest non trivial value. This argument is based on the properties of the partition function after a target space Wick rotation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0703171,
  title  = {Can strings live in four dimensions?},
  author = {Jean Alexandre and Nikolaos E. Mavromatos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0703171},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages, LaTeX