Connecting the ambitwistor and the sectorized heterotic strings
Result description
The sectorized description of the (chiral) heterotic string using pure spinors has been misleadingly viewed as an infinite tension string. One evidence for this fact comes from the tree level 3-point graviton amplitude, which we show to contain the usual Einstein term plus a higher curvature contribution. After reintroducing a dimensionful parameter ℓ in the theory, we demonstrate that the heterotic model is in fact two-fold, depending on the choice of the supersymmetric sector, and that the spectrum also contains one massive (open string like) multiplet. By taking the limit ℓ → ∞, we finally show that the ambitwistor string is recovered, reproducing the unexpected heterotic state in Mason and Skinner’s RNS description.
Keywords
supergravitysupergravity modelssuperstrings and heterotic strings
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Connecting the ambitwistor and the sectorized heterotic strings
Original language description
The sectorized description of the (chiral) heterotic string using pure spinors has been misleadingly viewed as an infinite tension string. One evidence for this fact comes from the tree level 3-point graviton amplitude, which we show to contain the usual Einstein term plus a higher curvature contribution. After reintroducing a dimensionful parameter ℓ in the theory, we demonstrate that the heterotic model is in fact two-fold, depending on the choice of the supersymmetric sector, and that the spectrum also contains one massive (open string like) multiplet. By taking the limit ℓ → ∞, we finally show that the ambitwistor string is recovered, reproducing the unexpected heterotic state in Mason and Skinner’s RNS description.
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Classification
Type
Jimp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10301 - Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)
Result continuities
Project
GBP201/12/G028: Eduard Čech Institute for algebra, geometry and mathematical physics
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN
1029-8479
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Volume of the periodical
2017
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
28
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UT code for WoS article
000429618400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85037605832
Basic information
Result type
Jimp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
OECD FORD
Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)
Year of implementation
2017