Supergroups in Critical Dimensions and Division Algebras

Authors

Čestmir Burdik, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Sultan Catto, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow
Yasemin Gürcan, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeFollow
Amish Khalfan, CUNY La Guardia Community CollegeFollow
Levent Kurt, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeFollow
V. Kato La, Columbia University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

We establish a link between classical heterotic strings and the groups of the magic square associated with Jordan algebras, allowing for a uniform treatment of the bosonic and superstring sectors of the heterotic string.

Comments

This article was originally published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series 804 (2017) 012009. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/804/1/012009