Maximally Supersymmetric String Theories in D<10
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-11-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The existence of maximally supersymmetric solutions to heterotic string theory that are not toroidal compactifications of the ten-dimensional superstring is established. We construct an exact fermionic realization of an N=1 supersymmetric string theory in D=8 with non-simply-laced gauge group Sp(20). Toroidal compactification to six and four dimensions gives maximally extended supersymmetric theories with reduced rank (4,12) and (6,14) respectively.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9505054,
title = {Maximally Supersymmetric String Theories in D<10},
author = {Shyamoli Chaudhuri and G. Hockney and Joseph D. Lykken},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9505054},
year = {2010}
}
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LaTex, 10 pages. Additional details of the solutions described here are available on the World-Wide Web at http://www-theory.fnal.gov/superstrings/superstrings.html