Compactification of the Twisted Heterotic String

Authors

V. Parameswaran Nair, City College of New YorkFollow
Alfred Shapere, University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Strominger, University of California, Santa Barbara; Princeton
Frank Wilczek, University of California, Santa Barbara

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1987

Abstract

We consider compactifications of the recently discovered tachyon free non-supersymmetric string on tori of Lorentzian self dual lattices. The one loop cosmological constant is computed as a function of the parameters characterizing the lattices. When the lattice parameters are treated as dynamical variables, their equations of motion require extremization of A. This extremization determines the allowed gauge groups and mass spectra. We explicitly find some extremes of A, valid to all orders in perturbation theory. A very general duality relation between compactifications is demonstrated, which leads to an equivalence of compactifications on tori of radii R aud 1/R.