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Finite in All Directions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study toroidal compactifications of string theories which include compactification of a timelike coordinate. Some new features in the theory of toroidal compactifications arise. Most notably, Narain moduli space does not exist as a manifold since the action of duality on background data is ergodic. For special compactifications certain infinite dimensional symmetries, analogous to the infinite dimensional symmetries of the 2D2D string are unbroken. We investigate the consequences of these symmetries and search for a universal symmetry which contains all unbroken gauge groups. We define a flat connection on the moduli space of toroidally compactified theories. Parallel transport by this connection leads to a formulation of broken symmetry Ward identities. In an appendix this parallel transport is related to a definition of conformal perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9305139,
  title  = {Finite in All Directions},
  author = {G. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9305139},
  year   = {2007}
}

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65pp., YCTP-P12-93

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