Published July 12, 1990
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Journal article
Stringy cosmic strings and SUSY gauge theories
Description
The stringy cosmic strings of Greene, Shapere, Vafa and Yau are deeply related to 4D N=2 gauge theories. In particular, their results are relevant for these theories too. The gauge language suggests a multi-dimensional generalization of these classical solutions of the string equations. They correspond to abelian varieties whose moduli are functions of the non-compact 'space-time' coordinates. Remarkably, only algebraic tori can be obtained this way. In all cases, the 2d σ-model metrics are hyperKaehler, and hence we have exact superconformal invariance. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 244
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 23-26
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 21084257
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; ALGEBRA; CHIRALITY; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; COSMOLOGY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MATRICES; MULTIPLETS; RIEMANN SPACE; SIGMA MODEL; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY; TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; VECTOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSON-EXCHANGE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PERIPHERAL MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE; SYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS