Published August 21, 1986 | Version v1
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Heterotic string modifications of Einstein's and Yang-Mills' actions

Creators

  • 1. North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill (USA). Inst. of Field Physics

Description

We derive the quartic curvature and quartic gauge field modifications to the low-energy effective action in the heterotic string theory by studying tree level four-point scattering amplitudes. The results provide further constraints on compactification of the ten-dimensional spacetime; in particular, it appears that Calabi-Yau manifolds do not provide consistent compactification of the heterotic string. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
176
Journal Issue
1/2
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
57-60
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
18000059
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPACTIFICATION; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS; GRAVITONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; METRICS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; VECTOR FIELDS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
Descriptors DEC
AMPLITUDES; BASIC INTERACTIONS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; INTERACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant DE-FG05-85ER40219