Published December 29, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

On the spectrum of (2,2) compactification of the heterotic string on conformal field theories

  • 1. Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Dept. of Physics

Description

We study (2, 2) compactifications of the heterotic string by tensoring the degenerate N=2 superconformal series. We recently constructed all models with c=9 that preserve N=1 spacetime supersymmetry. Here we extend this analysis by investigating the spectrum of our models. The number of generations and anti-generations is calculated and we comment on the conjectured relation between these conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau compactifications. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
215
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
681-688
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant PHY-85-3890; PHY-86-05978