Heterotic Conformal Field Theory and Gepner’s Construction

Authors

Darwin Chang, University of Maryland - College Park
Asim Gangopadhyaya, Loyola University ChicagoFollow
Alok Kumar, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique
Jin Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-15-1990

Publication Title

Physical Review D

Volume

42

Issue

8

Abstract

We discuss some general properties of heterotic conformal field theory in which conformal anomalies c are different for the left-moving and right-moving sectors. It is precisely this type of theory that can be applied immediately to the construction of heterotic string theory. We discuss a general way of constructing such a theory using free fermions. The construction is then applied to generalize Gepner's construction of superstring solutions using the tensor products of N=2 superconformal field theories.

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Recommended Citation

Chang, D., Gangopadhyaya, A., Kumar, A., and Wang, J. (1990). Heterotic conformal field theory and Gepner's construction. Physical Review D, 42(8), 2694-2703.

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