VACUUM CONFIGURATIONS FOR SUPERSTRINGS

Journal article

We study candidate vacuum configurations in ten-dimensional O(32) and E8 × E8 supergravity and superstring theory that have unbroken N = 1 supersymmetry in four dimensions. This condition permits only a few possibilities, all of which have vanishing cosmological constant. In the E8 × E8 case, one of these possibilities leads to a model that in four dimensions has an E6 gauge group with four standard generations of fermions. © 1985.

Authors: Candelas, P; Horowitz, G; Strominger, A; Witten, E

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
• Volume: 258
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 46-74
• Publication date: 1985-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90602-9
• ISSN: 0550-3213
• Language: English