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Non-Supersymmetric Orbifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3

Abstract

We study compact non-supersymmetric Z_N orbifolds in various dimensions. We compute the spectrum of several tachyonic type II and heterotic examples and partially classify tachyon-free heterotic models. We also discuss the relation to compactification on K3 and Calabi-Yau manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0202057,
  title  = {Non-Supersymmetric Orbifolds},
  author = {Anamaria Font and Alexis Hernandez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0202057},
  year   = {2014}
}

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26 pages, Latex, v3: eqs. 3 and 4 corrected, version to be published in Nucl. Phys. B