On the strongly coupled heterotic string

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作者
Dudas, E [1 ]
Mourad, J [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CERGY PONTOISE,GPS,F-95302 CERGY,FRANCE
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10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00335-3
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We analyze in detail the anomaly cancellation conditions for the strongly coupled E-8 x E-8 heterotic string introduced by Horava and Witten and find new features compared to the ten-dimensional Green-Schwarz mechanism. We project onto ten dimensions the corresponding Lagrangian of the zero-mode fields. We find that it has a simple interpretation provided by the conjectured heterotic string/fivebrane duality. The part which originates from eleven-dimensions is naturally described in fivebrane language. We discuss physical couplings and scales in four dimensions. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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页码:71 / 79
页数:9
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