Heterotic Conformal Field Theory and Gepner’s Construction

Darwin Chang; Asim Gangopadhyaya; Alok Kumar; Jin Wang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.42.2694

Heterotic Conformal Field Theory and Gepner’s Construction

Darwin Chang
, Asim Gangopadhyaya
, Alok Kumar
, Jin Wang

Department of Physics

University of Maryland - College Park
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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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.

Original language	American English
Journal	Physics: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Volume	42
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.42.2694
State	Published - Oct 15 1990

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conformal field theory
Gepner's construction

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