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Phys. Rev. D 35, 648–654 (1987)

On toroidal compactification of heterotic superstrings

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Paul Ginsparg
Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Received 18 August 1986; published in the issue dated 15 January 1987

I comment on the use of background gauge fields and antisymmetric tensor fields in toroidal compactification of heterotic strings, and explicitly construct the background gauge field that interpolates between the E8×E8 and Spin(32)/Z2 theories defined on R9×S1.

© 1987 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.35.648
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.35.648
PACS:
11.17.+y, 11.10.Kk