Heterotic String
- 11 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (6) , 502-505
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.502
Abstract
A new type of superstring theory is constructed as a chiral combination of the closed bosonic and fermionic strings. The theory is supersymmetric, Lorentz invariant, and free of tachyons. Consistency requires the gauge group to be or .
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