String Duality and Novel Theories without Gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We describe some of the novel 6d quantum field theories which have been discovered in studies of string duality. The role these theories (and their 4d descendants) may play in alleviating the vacuum degeneracy problem in string theory is reviewed. The DLCQ of these field theories is presented as one concrete way of formulating them, independent of string theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9801109,
title = {String Duality and Novel Theories without Gravity},
author = {Shamit Kachru},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9801109},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
13 pages, Latex. Based on a talk at the 31st International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Buckow, Germany, September 2-6 1997