Published March 19, 1987
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Journal article
Orbifolds and Wilson lines
Creators
- 1. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
Description
We study the consequences of the presence of gauge background fields on the torus underlying orbifold compactification of the heterotic string. It is pointed out that such Wilson lines provide us with a mechanism for controlling the number of chiral matter states both from twisted and untwisted sectors, as well as breaking the symmetry group. Starting from the Z orbifold, we can construct a variety of four-dimensional string models with three families of quarks and leptons and different gauge groups such as E6, SU(3)3, SU(6)xU(1) or SU(5)x[SU(2)xU(1)]2. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Lett., B
- Journal Volume
- 187
- Journal Issue
- 1/2
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 25-32
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 18062534
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHIRALITY; COMPACTIFICATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LEPTONS; ORBITS; PARTICLE MULTIPLETS; QUARKS; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; STRING MODELS; SU-2 GROUPS; SU-3 GROUPS; SU-5 GROUPS; SU-6 GROUPS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION; U-1 GROUPS; VECTOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANNULAR SPACE; CONFIGURATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLETS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS