MODULI SPACE OF CHAUDHURI-HOCKNEY-LYKKEN STRINGS

Citation
S. Chaudhuri et J. Polchinski, MODULI SPACE OF CHAUDHURI-HOCKNEY-LYKKEN STRINGS, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 52(12), 1995, pp. 7168-7173
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
ISSN journal
05562821
Volume
52
Issue
12
Year of publication
1995
Pages
7168 - 7173
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(1995)52:12<7168:MSOCS>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We discuss an orbifold of the toroidally compactified heterotic string which gives a global reduction of the dimension of the moduli space w hile preserving the supersymmetry. This construction yields the moduli space of the first of a series of reduced rank theories with maximal supersymmetry discovered recently by Chaudhuri, Hockney, and Lykken. S uch moduli spaces contain nonsimply laced enhanced symmetry points in any spacetime dimension D<10. Precisely in D=4 the set of allowed gaug e groups is invariant under electric-magnetic duality, providing furth er evidence for the S duality of the D=4 heterotic string.