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Superstrings with Torsion
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In this paper, the conditions for spacetime supersymmetry of the heterotic superstring in background with arbitrary metric, torsion, Yang-Mills and dilaton expectation values are determined using the sigma model approach.About:
This article is published in Nuclear Physics.The article was published on 1986-06-08. It has received 1162 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sigma model & Dilaton.read more
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Strings on orbifolds
TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered string propagation on the quotient of a flat torus by a discrete group and obtained an exactly soluble and more or less realistic method of string compactification.
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Systematics of moduli stabilisation in Calabi-Yau flux compactifications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the large volume limit of the scalar potential in Calabi-Yau flux compactifications of type IIB string theory, and they showed that there exists a limit in which the potential approaches zero from below, with an associated non-supersymmetric AdS minimum at exponentially large volume.
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Supergravity description of field theories on curved manifolds and a no go theorem
Juan Maldacena,Carlos Nunez +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that there are no non-singular Randall-Sundrum or de-Sitter compactifications for large class of gravity theories up to AdS5.
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Flux compactifications in string theory: A Comprehensive review
Mariana Graña,Mariana Graña +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a pedagogical overview of flux compactifications in string theory is presented, from the basic ideas to the most recent developments, focusing on closed-string fluxes in type-II theories.
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The Conformal Field Theory of Orbifolds
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived Yukawa couplings in the effective field theory for fermionic strings on orbifolds and applied them to the scattering of four twisted string states, which allowed the extraction of operator product coefficients of conformal twist fields.
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Phillip Griffiths,Joe Harris +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive, self-contained treatment of complex manifold theory is presented, focusing on results applicable to projective varieties, and including discussion of the theory of Riemann surfaces and algebraic curves, algebraic surfaces and the quadric line complex.
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New manifolds for superstring compactification
Andrew Strominger,Edward Witten +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors construct new manifolds with SU(3) holonomy that are candidate vacua for superstring theory and give a detailed explanation of the techniques involved.
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TL;DR: A topological formula is given for the entire tree-level contribution to the low-energy effective action of a Calabi-Yau superstring compactification.
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Couplings and scales in superstring models
Michael Dine,Nathan Seiberg +1 more
TL;DR: The domains of weak coupling of superstring theories are identified in this article, where it is shown that the nonlinear σ model on the string world sheet must be strongly coupled.